Notes on building Tcl/Tk for TeX Live 2023
For 2023, the same recipe applies as for 2022 below, except that
configure is invoked with a --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 parameter:
Notes on building Tcl/Tk for TeX Live 2022
The 2022 edition contains a subset of a basic Tcl/Tk installation.
The Tcl/Tk 8.6.12 sources were downloaded via
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/download.html
Tcl/Tk was cross-compiled under ArchLinux (5.16.12-arch1-1) as follows.
First,patch the file tk8.6.12/win/wish.exe.manifest.in for
better HiPDI support by adding a dpiAwareness element; the
asmv3:windowsSettings element in this file becomes:
true
PerMonitorV2
Create or choose an arbitrary root for the installation. Do for Tcl
and Tk successively:
- Unpack the source, and run in the win subdirectory:
./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --enable-embedded-manifest \
--prefix=
make
make install
Portability of the result should be no problem.
For a smaller installation, I stripped all the .exe- and .dll files,
and removed all .a files and binsqlite3_analyzer.
In the bin directory, I copied tclsh86.exe and wish86.exe to
tclsh.exe and wish.exe respectively.
I placed just the resulting lib- and bin subdirectories under
/tlpkg/tltcl, omitting the include- and share
subdirectories.
For testing, see tlperl.README.
Siep Kroonenberg
March 2022/2023