[Starkit] kitro target in genkit

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

Guaca Mole wrote:

>> Can you explain why?  What is it you need?
>
> Avoid having the C++ dependency.
[...]
> my application segfaults when dynamically loading an
> extension that in turn depends on C++. Those
> extensions cannot be compiled in, because they depend
> on X and I want to load them only if X-Window is
> available.

Not sure I follow.  Why not build with the C++ libs linked in  
dynamically?  Then the linked in C++ works and so do any extensions  
loaded later?

> (http://www.equi4.com/pub/etc/readkit.tar.gz)

Readkit is one path, but I'll not be pursuing it.

> [...] a way of integrating it into tclkit

There are some new developments which might be of use to you, see the  
Vlerq research project at http://www.vlerq.org/ - more specifically:  
a core in plain C (called Thrive), a Tcl binding which can read MK  
datafiles and starkits (called Ratcl), and a limited Mk4tcl emulation  
layyer on top of that (called minimk for now).  So all the pieces  
already exist to construct a variant of Tclkit which does not use C++  
and which can have read-only support for starkits (the same  
functionality as needed for Tclkit's own wrapping).

You're more than welcome to help make this happen, while I work on  
getting all the above pieces working just right.

-jcw