From the MK-Scripting mailing list:
> [...] I would like to install MK as it's required for the > Oedipus-0.07 (python-based ODP) installation. The installation > instructions I found on the MK site are way above my head. I have > python, I have VC++. I'd sure like step by step instructions.
You're not the first person to get lost, I'm afraid. Things are still rough, but the essence is that you need only one file to use Metakit. On Windows, that's Mk4py.dll, on Mac it's Mk4py.slb, on Unix it usually is Mk4py.so (the one that is built for that target machine, evidently).
Using Mk4py on Windows:
- download https://www.equi4.com/pub/mk/mk-2.0/mk-windows.zip - for Python, you *only* need Mk4py.dll - put it in a place where Python will find it (such as current dir) - that's it, Python will load it when it performs an "import Mk4py"
Using Mk4py on Linux:
- get https://www.equi4.com/pub/mk/mk-2.0/mk-i586-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz - for Python, you *only* need Mk4py.so, for the rest: see above
For other platforms, see if there is a binary release, else you'll need to download the source code and build the extension(s) yourself.
For Tcl, the steps are almost identical: replace "Mk4py" with "Mk4tcl", and use "load ./Mk4tcl[info sharedlibextension]" instead of "import", since that's the Tcl way of doing things.
I've copied these notes to a page on the Metakit wiki:
https://www.equi4.com/metakit/wiki.cgi/
-jcw