Tcl beta 3 is a minor update for compatability with perl 5.6.0. Use Tcl-b2 for earlier releases of perl. Regards, Andrew Brown andy75@hotmail.com ================================================================================ Tcl extension module (release beta2) for Perl5 Copyright (c) 1994-1997, Malcolm Beattie All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or b) the "Artistic License" which comes with every Perl distribution. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details. This is the beta2 release of the Tcl extension module for Perl5. You need to have at least release 5.002 of Perl. The Tcl extension provides a small but complete interface into libtcl and any other Tcl-based library. It lets you create Tcl interpreters (as perl5 objects), bind in commands to them (either perl subroutines or C functions dynamically loaded with the DynaLoader extension) and execute Tcl code in those interpreters. There is a Tcl::Tk extension (not to be confused with "native" perl5 Perl/Tk extension) distributed separately which provides a raw but complete interface to the whole of libtk via this Tcl extension. Build in the usual way for a perl extension: 1. Tweak Makefile.PL is necessary--if your Tcl include files are neither in /usr/local/include nor in /usr/include/tcl then put the appropriate path in the INC line. 2. perl Makefile.PL make 3. Before installing, you can run the small test suite with make test if you wish. 4. make install Malcolm Beattie mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk