ActiveTcl is ActiveState's quality-assured distribution of Tcl. # see # First of all, please try to configure without any options. "extconf.rb" searches ActiveTcl as default action. If you have ActiveTcl and standard (or your own) Tcl/Tk on your environment and don't want to use ActiveTcl on your Ruby/Tk, please use --without-ActiveTcl option. When "extconf.rb" fails to find your ActiveTcl libraries, please try the followings. If you want to use ActiveTcl binary package as the Tcl/Tk libraries, please use the following configure options. --with-ActiveTcl= ( When without argument; no ; only '--with-ActiveTcl', it same to '--with-ActiveTcl=/opt/ActiveTcl*/lib' ) --with-tcl-dir= --with-tk-dir= And use the followings if you need. --with-tcllib= --with-tklib= --enable-tcltk-stubs For example, when you install ActiveTcl-8.4.x to '/usr/local/ActiveTcl', configure --with-tcl-dir=/usr/local/ActiveTcl/ \ --with-tk-dir=/usr/local/ActiveTcl/ \ --with-tcllib=tclstub8.4 \ --with-tklib=tkstub8.4 \ --enable-tcltk-stubs It depends on your environment that you have to add the directory of ActiveTcl's libraries to your library path when execute Ruby/Tk. One of the way is to add entries to TCLLIBPATH environment variable, and one of the others add to LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable Probably, using TCLLIBPATH is better. The value is appended at the head of Tcl's 'auto_path' variable. You can see the value of the variable by using 'Tk::AUTO_PATH.value' or 'Tk::AUTO_PATH.list'. For example, on Linux, one of the ways is to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [bash]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ActiveTcl/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH \ ruby your-Ruby/Tk-script [bash]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ActiveTcl/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH irb ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Based on it, the Tcl interpreter changes auto_path variable's value. Then, you'll be able to use Tcl/Tk extension libraries included in the ActiveTcl package (e.g. call TkPackage.require('BWidget'), and then, use functions/widgets of BWidget extension). Hidetoshi NAGAI (nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp)