Tcl perl module for Perl5

Interface to Tcl and Tcl/Tk

Description

The Tcl extension provides a small but complete interface into libtcl and any other Tcl-based library. It lets you create Tcl interpreters as perl5 objects, execute Tcl code in those interpreters and so on. There is a Tcl::Tk extension (not to be confused with "native" perl5 Perl/Tk extension) distributed separately which provides complete interface to the whole of Tk via this Tcl extension, also providing full perl/Tk syntax. Another extension to note is Tcl::pTk, which does the same but claims to have full perl/Tk compatibility.

Using "tcl stubs", module could be built even without tcl-dev package installed on system. Still, tcl (or tcl/tk) must be installed during module build. --nousestubs also supported. Tcl versions 9.0, 8.6, 8.4 are actively used and supported, 8.0 also worked well in the past.

Install

Build in the usual way for a perl extension:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

This will take reasonable defaults on your system and should be ok for most uses. In some rare cases you need to specify parameters to Makefile.PL, such as pointing non-standard locations of tcl/tk, etc. Use --help option to find out supported parameters to Makefile.PL:

   perl Makefile.PL --help

License

See License, Authors sections in Tcl.pm, or with perldoc Tcl - once it is installed - to have acknowledged on this type of information.