$Id: WinInst.txt,v 1.5.2.2 2002/11/11 08:19:14 idiscovery Exp $


                         BUILDING THE WINDOWS BINARIES

   To build Tix on Windows, you must have the following:

     * Visual C++ 4.0 or later; or Borland C++ 4.5 or later. There is not
       yet built-in support for Tix to work with other compilers.
     * The sources of Tcl/Tk for Windows.
     * The sources of Tix for Windows.

  1. DOWNLOAD THE TCL, TK AND TIX SOURCES

   You can download latest version of the Tcl8.0, 8.1 8.2 or 8.3 from
   ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub . There are detailed instructions that
   comes with these packages about compiling them on Windows. Hopefully
   that will give you a good exercise on setting up the environment for
   compiling Tcl-based programs on the Windows platforms.

   You can then get the Tix source distribution at
   http://tix.sourceforge.net. The ZIP file contains files with
   long file names and must be unzipped by an UNZIP program that knows
   long filenames, such as winzip.exe.

   You should put the Tcl, Tk and Tix source packages in the same
   directory. For example, my directories look like this:

     C:\Program Files\tcl8.3.5
     C:\Program Files\tk8.3.5
     C:\Program Files\tix-8.1.4

  2. COMPILE TCL AND TK

   Follow the instructions that come with Tcl and Tk. If you can compile
   successfully, you would get the following files:

     C:\Program Files\tcl8.3.5\win\tcl83.dll
     C:\Program Files\tcl8.3.5\win\tclpip83.dll
     C:\Program Files\tk8.3.5\win\tk83.dll

   These are the files you need to run Tix on Windows.

  3. COMPILE TIX

   Change to the tix-8.1.4\Win subdirectory. Tix supports several versions
   of Tcl. 

   1. Versions of Tcl/Tk prior to 8.0 are no longer supported.
   2. The makefile.bc is for Borland 4.5/5.x,
   The makefile.vc4 is for MSVC 4.x,
   The makefile.vc4 is for MSVC 5.x and 6.x
   3. Edit the file "common.mak" set set the common settings:
   TCL_VER     = version of Tcl to compile with. Should be either 8.0 8.1 or
   8.2. You may also have to set the Tk/Tcl patchlevel TCLPATCH.

   For MSVC++, use: nmake -f makefile.vc
   If you have BC++, use: make -f makefile.bc instead.

   When make or nmake finishes, you will get Tix binaries inside the
   build directories. For example, if you compile Tix for Tcl 8.0, you
   will be the following files: 

     C:\Program Files\tix-8.1.4\win\tcl8.3.5\tix8183.dll
     C:\Program Files\tix-8.1.4\win\tcl8.3.5\tix8183.exe

   The executable file tix8183.exe contains Tcl, Tk and Tix. You can use
   it to run an Tix script by: 

     set TIX_LIBRARY=C:\Program Files\tix-8.1.4\library 
     C:\Program Files\tix-8.1.4\win\tcl8.3.5\tix8183.exe foo.tcl

  4. FIXING DLL PROBLEMS

   You may run into certain problems related to DLL's when you execute
   tix8183.exe. For example:
     * Windows complains that a DLL, usually tcl83.dll, is not found.
     * Windows complains that a symbol is missing.
     * Some weird things happen.

   When tix8183.exe starts up, it will load in the following DLL's
     * tcl83.dll
     * tclpip83.dll
     * tk83.dll
     * tix8183.dll

   Windows searches for a DLL file by the following order:
    1. Same directory as executable.
    2. Windows system directory.
    3. directories in the PATH environment variable.

   To ensure that the correct DLLs are loaded, you can copy all the DLL's
   used by tix8183.exe into the directory where tix8183.exe is.

  5. INSTALLING TIX

   You can install Tix into the Tcl installation directory so that you
   can load Tix with the "package require" command and no longer need to
   set the TIX_LIBRARY variable:

    1. Create a directory tix-8.1 under the Tcl installation directory,
       usually in C:\Program Files\tcl8.3.5\lib.

    2. Copy all the files under tix-8.1.4\library into the C:\Program
       Files\tcl8.3.5\lib\tix-8.1 directory.

    3. Copy the file tix-8.1.4\win\pkgIndex.tcl into the C:\Program
       Files\tcl8.3.5\lib\tix-8.1 directory.

   Now you should be able to start up wish83.exe and execute the
   following command to load in Tix. 

     package require Tix

   Read the file tix-8.1.4\docs\Pkg.txt for more info about dynamically
   loading Tix.

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  FAQ'S FOR RUNNING TIX ON WINDOWS

   How do I set an environment variable.

          You can set it in your DOS window by typing something like "set
          TIX_LIBRARY=C:\Program Files\tix-8.1.4\library". This will affect that 
          particular DOS window only. If you want the change to affect the 
          whole Windows environment (for example, you want launch tix8381.exe
          by double-clicking on its icon), you must put the commands in
          your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and then reboot your machine.

   I get an "out of environment space" error from DOS.

          Edit your CONFIG.SYS file and add the switch "/E:1024" to the
          SHELL=COMMAND.COM line. Reboot. This should give you enough
          env space.

   My C compiler says "unrecognized file format tk83.lib" or something
          like that.

          You compiled tk83.lib with VC++ and are compiling Tix with
          Borland C++, or vice versa. Use the same compiler to compile
          all binaries.




