[ltk-user] Cross platform distribution?

[Matthew Stickney]

Running a local version of wish is easy enough: just bind the
LTK:*WISH-PATHNAME* variable to the pathname of your binary before
using LTK:START-WISH or LTK:WITH-LTK. Using a different binary for
different platforms is just a matter of using the #+ and #- reader
macros to get the right pathname.

Using starkits for extensions is also quite simple, but you'll need to
implement a few things yourself: you'll have write some code to load
the startkit package in tcl (see LTK:*INIT-WISH-HOOK*), create a
binding in ltk for loading the kits themselves (and any code in them),
and you'll probably want one for loading dll-based libs (some
extensions like TWAPI don't have starkits readily available).

I've got code for most of this around, which I'll try to post tonight
after work.

-Matt Stickney

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Joshua Kordani <jkordani at lsa2.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I've been very interested in locating an easy to distribute, cross platform
> gui library that will allow for gui development in common lisp.  After
> finding out about tclkits and seeing how small they are, I get the
> impression that this goal is reachable via distribution of the platform
> specific tclkit along with a common lisp image (with ltk configured to
> locate the supplied tclkit).  I didn't find an archive of this list, and
> from what I've read in ltk docs, it seems like this concept is easily
> supported, but I am rather new to common lisp and tcl/tk.  Given that I am
> new to common lisp, I don't necessarily know what part of the ltk code I
> need to read in order to figure out how to invoke a local instance of tcl/tk
> (let alone make a connection to a remote-tcl).
>
> I am open to anything, if someone has walked this path before and knows of
> some documentation that might be illuminating, I'm all ears.  In addition,
> if anyone has any suggestions about how I might go about this whole cross
> platform gui common lisp development effort more easily, I'm also all ears.
>
> My short term goal is to produce enough material to run the ltkdemo (or at
> least, my own hello world code) from a lisp image that references a supplied
> tclkit on at least osx and windows.
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Joshua Kordani
> LSA Autonomy