Re: TkEmc install help

[RJH-at-inel.gov]

Thanks for responding Ray,

Monitoring the par port is one of the reasons I want to get tk working
right. I have run it IO-Show.tcl from my emc directory, and a few others.
The only thing I get is an "Aborted" at the prompt. I am running debian, I
tried installing the latest rpm using alien but it didn't work, so I
compiled from the source.

>You can run IO_Show.tcl without the EMC running but you need to run it
from
>the emc directory.  Using the latest rpm install, I did this by typing
>
>cd /usr/local/nist/emc
>tcl/scripts/IO_Show.tcl
>
>It put up the parport window and changed leds <grin> when I switched in my
>printer.

To get emc to compile without errors I had to do the following.

cd /usr/lib make simlinks of libtcl.so, libtclx.so, libtk.so, libtk.so to
the versions on my drive.
     example : libtclx.so --> libtclx8.0.4.so.1
cd /usr/local/nist/rcslib/etc/linux_2_2_13 and edited

     # Flags for compiling and linking Tcl apps
     TCL_INC =
     # TCL_LINK = -ltcl -ltclx -ltcl -ldl
     TCL_LINK = -ltcl -ltclx8.0.4 -ldl
     TK_LINK = -ltk

     Change to read :

     # Flags for compiling and linking Tcl apps
     TCL_INC =
     TCL_LINK = -ltcl -ltclx -ltcl -ldl
     # TCL_LINK = -ltcl -ltclx8.0.4 -ldl
     TK_LINK = -ltk

Then run /usr/local/nist/install

I have multiple versions of tcl and tk on my machine. I linked to the 8.0
versions of all the libs. Should I be setting the paths differently for the
compile? Any other hints on setting up for the compile?
Thanks

Ron