OCaml and Tcl/Tk statically linked

[Vyskocil Vladimir <vyskocil@unice.fr>]

"Benjamin C. Pierce" wrote:
> 
> Answering my own question...
> 
>   I've been told that statically linking Tk applications is not
>   possible.  If you can tell me how to do it (ideally on both Unix and
>   Windows) I'd be delighted to know: this is one of our biggest problems
>   with distributing Unison at the moment.
> 
> >From talking to some more experts, the situation appears to be this:
> Tk can be statically linked, but this doesn't help with portability
> because when it starts the first thing it does is reads some Tcl
> scripts.  So in any case you can't distribute a complete all-in-one
> executable: users will have to install (the right version of) Tk to
> run your program.

I've build a tool which has TK statically linked and all the script part
put in it : I've put all tcl lib files into one (or more) C strings and
evalued them by a TCL interpret in the init part of the application (it
was done in a small C piece of code linked with OCaml),  it works very
well ! 

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Vyskocil Vladimir
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