You are looking at https://www.equi4.com/pub/tk/tars/README. The files in this area are all you need to build TclKit on Unix. The tar/gz files are essentially the official releases with one minor patch to Tk, as listed in "all.diffs': Tcl/Tk 8.4.16, Tcl/Tk 8.5b1, Metakit 2.4.9.7 (from SVN) Itcl 3.4 (from CVS), TclVFS 1.3.1 (from CVS) Tclkit (from SVN, not versioned) See the build instructions in https://www.equi4.com/BuildingTclkit for details and background info about the build process. In a nutshell: 1. get the "genkit" script, put it in a fresh directory 2. run the following shell commands: tclsh genkit A <-- this fetches & unpacks all the files tclsh genkit B tcl <-- this builds a static tclsh sh genkit B <-- this builds all other packages sh genkit C <-- this wraps all build results into a tarball sh genkit D <-- this does a quick check that the exe works sh genkit E <-- this builds a final one, using itself mv tclkit-`hostname` tclkit 3. fooled ya, there is no step 3 :) For all issues related to tclkits and starkits, see the mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/starkit -jcw