[Xotcl] "Cannot locate library"

[Uwe Zdun]

Looking through this code again, the ::xotcl::lib is not really used in 
XOTcl's code anymore ... and given the fact that you can create some setup, 
where something goes wrong in searching for the xotcl lib, I would propose
to remove the warning message ... that would require the following patch (for 
1.0.3) in generic/predefined.xotcl:

@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@
     }

     if {![info exists success]} {
-       puts stderr "Cannot locate the XOTcl library on your system!"
-       return 0
+       #puts stderr "Cannot locate the XOTcl library on your system!"
+       return
     }

The thing that happens then, if the lib is not found, is that it is reset to
the compiled-in default ... which is ok, I think.

--uwe

On Monday 12 May 2003 19:20, MichaelL at frogware.com wrote:
> I'm using XOTcl under both Tcl 8.4.2 and AOLServer. Here's my Tcl 8.4.2
> setup.
>
> $auto_path is {d:/appsdev/tcl/lib/tcl8.4 d:/appsdev/tcl/lib} both before
> and after
>
>         package require XOTcl 1
>
> xotcl is installed under d:/appsdev/tcl/lib/xotcl-1.0.2.
>
> In that dir is a pkgIndex.tcl file with the following:
>
>         package ifneeded XOTcl 1.0 [list load [file join $dir
> win/Release/xotcl1.0.dll] XOTcl]
>
> xotcl1.0.dll is under d:/appsdev/tcl/lib/xotcl-1.0.2/win/Release.
>
> I've also tried placing the dll in the bin directory and adjusting the
> pkgIndex.tcl file accordingly, but it had the same result.
>
> As I said, the dll does in fact load, and I can use XOTcl (and all of its
> libraries and samples). The problem is just the message.
>
> Uwe Zdun <uwe.zdun at wu-wien.ac.at> wrote on 05/12/2003 11:28:52 AM:
> > hmm ... Can you provide a bit more detail? where have you installed
>
> xotcl?
>
> > from where do you run it? what is the setting of the variable auto_path
>
> (
>
> > use: puts $auto_path  at the beginning your program)?
> >
> > Uwe
> >
> > On Monday 12 May 2003 16:35, MichaelL at frogware.com wrote:
> > > With XOTcl 1.0.2 on Windows 2000 I get the "Cannot locate the XOTcl
> > > library on your system!" message despite the fact that the library is
> > > successfully found. I read the message in the archives on this, but a)
>
> the
>
> > > workaround didn't seem to work for me (if I understood it correctly)
>
> and
>
> > > b) it seemed like 1.0.2 was supposed to fix the problem (but obviously
> > > didn't in my case).
> >
> > --
> > Uwe Zdun
> > Department of Information Systems, Vienna University of Economics
> > Phone: +43 1 313 36 4796, Fax: +43 1 313 36 746
> > zdun@{xotcl,computer,acm}.org, uwe.zdun at wu-wien.ac.at

-- 
Uwe Zdun
Department of Information Systems, Vienna University of Economics
Phone: +43 1 313 36 4796, Fax: +43 1 313 36 746
zdun@{xotcl,computer,acm}.org, uwe.zdun at wu-wien.ac.at