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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:

<asmv3:windowsSettings
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">
    <dpiAware>true</dpiAware>
    <dpiAwareness xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2016/WindowsSettings">PerMonitorV2</dpiAwareness>
</asmv3:windowsSettings>

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=<tcltk root>
  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
<TL root>/tlpkg/tltcl, omitting the include- and share
subdirectories.

For testing, see tlperl.README.

Siep Kroonenberg

March 2022/2023