RE: Re: TCL under WinCE

"Jeff Hobbs" <jeff-2ke/W+B1M/[email protected]> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:23:31 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.ce.freeware
Organization ActiveState
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > Compiling with Jeff's libs is maybe easier..

For some reason I never got around to packaging the .lib files
in my upgrade.  All the necessary files are included to rebuild
from scratch if you chose, but that's not ideal.

> I dont know,why ? Because they dont need the celib ?

My port does indeed still use celib, but not as much of it.  I
included patches that allowed for more use of newer Win/CE 3.x
features.  I have since moved to evc4 as a base, but I don't
think that I've perfected the newer build (moving yet more
stuff to use Win/CE 4 features).  Also, it means that PPC2003
is now my minimum platform.

> BTW, do you know how much memory RAM and filestorage
> will be added to my application when I use TCL/TK ?

File storage depends on what you want to install.  The core is
the usual core size, a few MB.  We are working on making a
starpack for Win/CE (a single-file executable, see
http://www.equi4.com/starkit.html for more info), which would be
about 2MB in size, again plus additional packages added.

As far as RAM, Tcl/Tk isn't all that greedy.  As a test, I
started iFile (http://wiki.tcl.tk/8540).  This uses bwidgets (a
pure Tcl megawidget extension), creates several tabs, a dir tree,
uses some images, etc.  Memory was at 17.73 before start, and
21.45 after it was running.  So 3.72MB used for that app.

Jeff