Re: Any documentation on dqkit

On May 11, 8:51 am, "John R. Culleton" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I downloaded dqkit but there is no documentation, no makefile
> and no ./configure file.  How do I install the dude?  How do I use it
> as opposed to starkit? Is there an equivalent to starpack in the
> dqkit world?

dqkit is used in the same way you would use tclkit. It's author just
added additional tcl extensions to the executable so that it included
more than he needed.

I don't know what you downloaded, or on what platform. However, I
would assume that you got one of two things. Either you got the
already built executable for some platform, you got some source code.
If you got the source code, I've no idea how to use it to build an
executable. However, if you got the executable, just run it. You
should end up with a % prompt, which is just the way that the tcl
interpreter works. If that is the case, then just run

dqkit sometclscript

and it should run.


>
> I am looking at dqkit because of BLT which apparently can't be
> incorporated into a starkit/pack.

The original BLT source wasn't set up to interact with tcl and tk via
the tcl stubs interface, which meant that it wouldn't work easily with
tclkit. The author of dqkit apparently either worked out the painful
parts or added stubs to the version of blt that he used.