From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: weis Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA19295 for caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:54:50 +0100 (MET) Resent-Message-Id: <200002231754.SAA19295@pauillac.inria.fr> Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA26346 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:10:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from ruby (kenny91.zip.com.au [61.8.18.219]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA20590 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:10:42 +0100 (MET) Received: from maxtal.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ruby (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA23355; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 02:09:37 +1100 Sender: root@ruby Message-ID: <38B3F831.4B82A115@maxtal.com.au> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 02:09:37 +1100 From: skaller Organization: Maxtal X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Benjamin C. Pierce" CC: ohl@hep.tu-darmstadt.de, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: References: <12079.951243339@saul.cis.upenn.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-From: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Resent-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:54:50 +0100 Resent-To: caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr "Benjamin C. Pierce" wrote: > > Answering my own question... > > I've been told that statically linking Tk applications is not > possible. If you can tell me how to do it (ideally on both Unix and > Windows) I'd be delighted to know: this is one of our biggest problems > with distributing Unison at the moment. > > >From talking to some more experts, the situation appears to be this: > Tk can be statically linked, but this doesn't help with portability > because when it starts the first thing it does is reads some Tcl > scripts. So in any case you can't distribute a complete all-in-one > executable: users will have to install (the right version of) Tk to > run your program. You can install the scripts with your application. -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 checkout Vyper http://Vyper.sourceforge.net download Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net