This option requires you to know about Compiling Tcl on a Mac.Īnother option would be to download the binary distributions. The source code for Tcl and Tk can be found at their SourceForge projects (see the Tcl Core Team page). Also, some popular extensions were not ported to Classic MacOS.Ī: There are several alternatives. Tcl has been ported to the Classic MacOS up to version 8.4, later versions will require OS X to run. Q: On what versions of Mac hardware and software does Tcl run?Ī: All Macs should run Tcl, the limit is the version of the OS. Q: How do I install Tcl related packages (extensions, etc.) on the Macintosh?Ī: Check first if the extension isn't already in the TclTkAquaBI batteries included distribution by Daniel Steffen or ActiveTcl. But you should also be aware of the developing DarwinPorts project (itself written in Tcl!). The package manager Fink is one of the easiest ways of installing unix software on your Mac.

(Needless to say: Alpha has a very fancy Tcl mode for editing Tcl scripts.) Alphatk is also available on MacOS X. Everyone interested in Tcl on the Mac should give Alpha a try. The classic Alpha was already an amazing text editor - AlphaX is just much more powerful because it has easy access to the unix underpinings of OSX. Most of Alpha's functionality is written in Tcl - so it is easy to tweek, extend, and script, making it do whatever you want and whatever can be done in Tcl! There is a mailing list dedicated to Tcl on the Mac: AlphaĪlpha, the powerful text editor for the Mac, has gone X! The beta version (requires OSX 10.2) is available from. ActiveState also distributes ActiveTcl for OS X.

It's a breeze to install, and it comes with lots of useful extensions. The state-of-the-art distribution of TclTk for OS X is Daniel Steffen's BI distro TclTkAquaBI. MacOS X comes with Tcl installed! With Tiger you also get a good selection of basic extensions, a subset of TclTkAquaBI. Here is some more recent info, concerning OS X: Distributions Information about the use of Tcl and Tk on MacOs and MacOS X operating systems on Apple's Macintosh computers.

For apple download Run-Command 6.01