This repository contains the build instructions and sources to compile Tcl and Tk with the Bwidget and Tktable extensions.

• Download the newest R tools from here and install it under c:\Rtools.
• Clone this git repository into 'C:\Tclbuild'
• Install msys v1 (which comes bundled with mingw) from here. Install it under C:/MinGW/.

Start a msys terminal by running C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/msys.bat and enter

cd /c/Tclbuild
./tclbuild.sh

After running the build script there will be a couple outputs

• Logs and builds (archived and compressed: Tcl32.zip and Tcl64.zip) are in the final_build folder.
• The Tcl32 and Tcl64 folders are the final builds (that get compressed as mentioned in the above point)

Note that running the tclbuild.sh script will delete the files in final_build.

You can test the builds by running wish86.exe (wish console)

• C:/Tclbuild/Tcl32/bin/wish86.exe and enter

    source C:/Tclbuild/interactive_test_build.tcl
  

• C:/Tclbuild/Tcl64/bin/wish86.exe and enter

    set auto_path [concat C:/Tclbuild/Tcl64/lib64 $auto_path]
    source C:/Tclbuild/interactive_test_build.tcl
  

The auto_path issue for the 64bit build gets resolved when compiling R with this Tcl/Tk build on Windows.

The sources can be found at the following urls

• tcl864-src.zip (direct link)
• tk864-src.zip (direct link)
• bwidget-1.9.9.zip
• tktable-tktable.tar.gz(direct link). Note that this is from the cvs repository and version 2.11. The stable build is 2.10 but ActiveTcl also ships with 2.11 (although I am not sure which commit).