It sounds like most of this is Windows specific, right Scott?
What if we just cave in and set up basic registry structure
under some vendor-neutral name, e.g., "Tcl" instead of Scriptics.
At first I was pleased to see less dependency on the registry,
but with examples like these, it seems like a few basic registry
entries would simplify everyone's life.
>>>"Scott Redman" said:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > > Sorry, I haven't been following this thread.
> > >
> > > You can't have any idea where the tclsh.exe lives,
> > > unless it's in you're PATH or (on Windows) in the
> > > registry. You can't even know the name (is it
> > > tclsh.exe or tclsh83.exe?), maybe a global variable
> > > or some sort of config file for your script can
> > > help with that.
> >
> > What if there is no tclsh.exe file at all? I thought
> > the point of stubs was to remove all the "junk" you
> > needed to know about a version of Tcl. Can we
> > just call Tcl_FindExecutable(NULL), will that
> > still set up the tcl library path properly?
>
> You need to call Tcl_FindExecutable(<dll location>),
> the NULL won't find the encoding directory but
> should intitialize the basic encodings, and it
> won't find the Tcl library on Unix. On Windows,
> this can be automated in the DllMain() in tcl8x.dll,
> but not on Unix (which will need an env variable
> to figure it out). With stubs, you also need to
> know where to pick up the tcl8x.dll and what number
> the x is. An env variable (or registry on WinNT)
> will solve this, just combine the two solutions.
>
> TCL_SHLIB=/usr/local/lib/libtcl83.so
> TCL_SHLIB=c:\\Program Files\\tcl\\bin\\tcl83.dll
>
> This issue is also true for the Tcl Plugin, and
> David Gravereaux had a working version that looked
> at the registry on Windows, but this doesn't scale
> to Unix. Each program could have it's own config
> file instead, but I like it being common. If we
> do this, then even tclsh can use it and be stubs
> aware...
>
> I'm going to send this to the TEA list as well...
>
> -- Scott
>
-- Brent Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.ajubasolutions.com
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