[Xotcl] "Cannot locate library"

[Gustaf Neumann]

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 11:53, Uwe Zdun wrote:
> It does not solve the main problems solved by  check_library_path:
> to include the env(XOTcl) variable 

true, i think we dont need it

> and use the local directory
> when you are in it so that you don't necessarily have to install. 

as stated in my last mail. extending the autopath or tcllibpath
should solve this.

> The rest of the code (in the second else part) is only used to set the
> xotcl::lib variable correctly. Again: this variable is not really needed.
> At the moment, it is only an information for the programmer.
>
> we can think about getting rid of the variable, maybe.

 there is code in the xotcl package "package" to determine 
 the name of the library directory. an application needing this
 info can use this approach...

-gustaf
>
> --uwe
>
> On Tuesday 13 May 2003 10:50, Gustaf Neumann wrote:
> > On Monday 12 May 2003 23:27, MichaelL at frogware.com wrote:
> > > I don't know if this helps, but my approach was to add the following in
> > > xotcl-1.0.2/pkgIndex.tcl:
> >
> >  Good idea!
> >
> >  the following is more generic an should work (if it placed
> >  into the installed directory of the xotcl library) platform indepently.
> >
> >  We should think a little about what to do to execute xotcl
> >  in the noninstalled case (e.g.
> >    - putting this into xotcl-$(VERSION)/library,
> >    - add a simple pkgIndex.tcl to xotcl-$(VERSION) to load the shared lib
> >    - add xotcl-$(VERSION) to auto_path
> >  ) and to produce the attached one on install....
> > This is the way we should go.
> >
> > -gustaf
> >
> > ============================================================
> > package ifneeded XOTcl 1.0 [list load \
> >   [file join $dir .. libxotcl1.0[info sharedlibextension]] XOTcl]
> >
> > set _dir_ $dir
> > foreach index [glob -nocomplain [file join $dir * pkgIndex.tcl]] {
> >   set dir [file dirname $index]
> >   source $index
> > }
> > set dir $_dir_
> > unset _dir_
> > ============================================================

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Univ.Prof. Dr.Gustaf Neumann
Abteilung für Wirtschaftsinformatik
WU-Wien, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien