[Starkit] Starkits as DLLs

[Gerald W. Lester]

Jeff Hobbs wrote:

>Gerald W. Lester wrote:
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>>Back at the Tcl/Tk 2004 conference, Steve Landers mentioned the idea of 
>>StarKits as DLLs,
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>FWIW, I posted the necessities to make this work back in April,
>and the Tcl Dev Kit ships with this working for all its supported
>platforms.
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>>entry points would be automatically generated wrappers for Tcl 
>>procedures that are exported (as specified in an Tcl Interface 
>>Definition (.tid) file). The wrappers would convert the 
>>arguments into TclObj and call the Tcl procedure via Tcl_EvalObj.
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>I'm not sure that this is necessary.  You are creating a pseudo
>ffidle style setup.  The stardll works where the user just does
>all the usual dlopen/dlsym (as appropriate for platform), and
>then can use Tcl as normal.  You can see code for making this
>work in the SF tclplugin SF Perl Tcl::Tk module sources.
>
>As a tangent, I do think that Tcl should have an extended load
>command that can load libraries and specific functions without
>the limits imposed by Tcl's currently 'load' command.
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Jeff,

You read it backwards.

I'd like to be able to *write* DLLs in Tcl -- not use prewritten DLLs 
from Tcl.

The DLLs that are written should be look the same, from the caller's 
point of view as those written in C/C++.  In otherwords he should not 
have to do tcl evals to call the tcl procedure.


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