BRL-CAD uses the Tcl/Tk libraries extensively. We currently embed a version of Tcl/Tk 8.5 in our src/other directory (see src/other/tcl and src/other/tk). Version 8.6 has been out for a while, but we haven't yet tested it.
Your task involves downloading the latest 8.6 Tcl/Tk sources, compiling and installing them on your system, then compiling BRL-CAD to use that version of Tcl/Tk. When you run "cmake", you'll want to check the output tests and cmake summary to make sure that it is using the system version you installed. Once you confirm that, you'll need to test if our build succeeds.
- Get a current checkout of BRL-CAD (or update the checkout in our VM if you're using that)
- Compile and install BRL-CAD successfully using defaults (just to make sure you can)
- Download tcl/tk 8.6
- Compile and install that tcl/tk
- Delete BRL-CAD build directory and compile/install BRL-CAD again using that tcl/tk version (see our INSTALL file for help)
You'll submit a detailed report of everything you do including a complete transcripts of all commands you run and their output. If you're successful, there may be a follow-on task to update our bundled version of Tcl/Tk.
References:- http://tcl.tk
- http://brlcad.org/wiki/Compiling
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I would like to work on this task.
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I see you installed tcl/tk succesffully but it was not turned on during the compilation process. I'm not very familiar with Visual studio. Can you get your hands on a linux system? If not try to get tcl/tk turned on during the compilation process. You can log on to our irc channel #brlcad for further assistance.
See what you can do.
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By tcl/tk not being "turned on during the compilation process", I assume you're referring to the last few lines of output in CMake.
Compile Tcl ...........................: OFFCompile Tk ............................: OFFFrom what I understand, it's supposed to be "OFF". ON means that CMake used the bundled sources provided in the BRL-CAD source distribution, and OFF means otherwise. Therefore the objective of this task is not to get ON for those two lines. If they are, then nothing has been accomplished as BRL-CAD is still using the old version 8.5 tcl/tk.
Since I didn't use the bundled version 8.5 tcl/tk sources, the only other place to find them is ActiveTcl, which only has version 8.6 sources. And since the compilation/build still succeeded, I have successfully completed this task.
I'm remarking this task as completed as I believe that I haven't done anything wrong on my side. If I'm really missing something, feel free to revert it. Also a time extension would be appreciated; it's past 12 midnight here, and I won't be free to work for the bulk of the next day.
Thanks.
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I'll test the code and see. Thanks for the effort
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