Tcl interpreter for windows

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This tutorial does not cover Tk, and so we will not use the wish interpreter here. Other options are also available, providing more functional environments for developing and debugging code than that provided by the standard tclsh. One very popular choice is the TkCon enhanced interpreter, written by Jeff Hobbs. Don't panic, though!

If you don't know how to use a sophisticated development environment, it is still very easy to write Tcl code by hand in a simple text editor such as Notepad.

There are plenty of wrappers for Tcl as a service. Start with wiki. Thanks for the reply. The scenario in the wrappers at the link you provided is to run the Tcl interpreter itself as a Windows service. What I'm trying do is to add a Tcl interpreter in the program to execute external Tcl scripts. Is it possible that the service is interfering with the Tcl event loop? If you look at the source code for the wrappers they should show you how to go about creating a Tcl interpreter within a service, try sensus.

Also if you post the code you've got so far it would help diagnose the problem. Ok I'll write a simplified version that reproduces the problem and I'll post it.

I looked at the code of tclsvc. It seems to confirm what I feared: the Tcl event loop has to be called explicitely. You should edit your question to put more of these pieces of information in; they'll make it more specific and a much better question. Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.