On Wednesday, 1 July 2015 at 09:38:05 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> Someone more familiar with Debian/Ubuntu than me may be able to help you here, sorry.
>
>> I was hoping to keep a tight rein on what was required to be installed to simplify deployment but its spiraling out of control again LOL.
>
> The -dev packages are only required during development (specifically at link time), the resulting binary only needs the normal packages installed.

Thanks Marc, I found the required packages... it threw me because they don't have any version number in the repo ... and the example works just fine now.

On Tuesday, 30 June 2015 at 12:58:21 UTC, Paul wrote:
> ...

I really don't understand posts like this when literally all information needed is in the README file:

https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd

Just read RTFM.

El 30/06/15 a les 16:28, Paul via Digitalmars-d-learn ha escrit:
> Using dub I get this during linking:
>
> Building tkd-test ~master configuration "application", build type debug.
> Compiling using dmd...
> Linking...
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcl
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltk
>
> ...any suggestions please?
>

If you are in Debian, Ubuntu, Linuxmint, etc, you can use the d-apt repository:

http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/

There are deb packages for tkd:

$ sudo apt-get install libtkd-dev libtkd-doc

You can compile the example application included on libtkd-doc deb package to test if "tkd" is properly installed on your system:

For shared linking against libphobos2.so and libtkd.so:
$ dmd `pkg-config --cflags --libs tkd` -J/usr/share/libtkd-doc/example/media/ /usr/share/libtkd-doc/example/example.d

For static linking against libphobos2.a and libtkd.a:
$ dmd `pkg-config --cflags --libs tkd-static` -J/usr/share/libtkd-doc/example/media/ /usr/share/libtkd-doc/example/example.d

Best regards,
Jordi

On Wednesday, 1 July 2015 at 17:43:11 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 June 2015 at 12:58:21 UTC, Paul wrote:
>> ...
>
> I really don't understand posts like this when literally all information needed is in the README file:
>
> https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd
>
> Just read RTFM.

I read that before posting, specifically the parts that say:

"Tkd requires version 8.6 (or greater) of the Tcl/Tk libraries installed. A small exception is when creating a self-contained installation on Windows. See details below. Tcl/Tk itself requires the x11 libraries installed on Linux only."

and

"On Linux and Mac OSX things are a little easier as both operating systems have Tcl/Tk installed by default. If however they do not have the latest version, the libraries can be updated via their respective package managers. The linked libraries are libtcl and libtk."

I can't see how they answer the questions I've asked (which admittedly are more related to the distro that D per se).

On Wednesday, 1 July 2015 at 18:38:27 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote:

> For shared linking against libphobos2.so and libtkd.so:
> $ dmd `pkg-config --cflags --libs tkd` -J/usr/share/libtkd-doc/example/media/ /usr/share/libtkd-doc/example/example.d
>
> For static linking against libphobos2.a and libtkd.a:
> $ dmd `pkg-config --cflags --libs tkd-static` -J/usr/share/libtkd-doc/example/media/ /usr/share/libtkd-doc/example/example.d


Thank you Jordi, I've got everything installed ok now but those linking instructions might come in very handy!

On Wednesday, 1 July 2015 at 19:45:04 UTC, Paul wrote:
> I can't see how they answer the questions I've asked.

Let me see.

On Tuesday, 30 June 2015 at 12:58:21 UTC, Paul wrote:
> I downloaded the archive from https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd and files are same as in the git repo. Tcl/tk is installed on this machine (test 'hello world' script works fine) but I get this error when compiling the example from the github page:
>
> tkd/interpreter/tcl.d(16): Error: module tcl is in file 'tcltk/tcl.d' which cannot be read
> import path[0] = /usr/include/dmd/phobos
> import path[1] = /usr/include/dmd/druntime/import
>
> As far as I can see there is no tcltk directory - can someone tell me where I'm going wrong or if something is missing?

The following text is taken from:
https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd#source-code

Tkd requires other D source libraries to correctly use and link against pre-existing C libraries. The source dependencies are as follows:

* https://github.com/nomad-software/tcltk
* https://github.com/nomad-software/x11

Dub handles these automatically and during a build acquires them. While building, the tcltk repository is configured to link against the required Tcl/Tk libraries, hence they need to be installed for the application to function.

On Tuesday, 30 June 2015 at 14:28:49 UTC, Paul wrote:
> Using dub I get this during linking:
>
> Building tkd-test ~master configuration "application", build type debug.
> Compiling using dmd...
> Linking...
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcl
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltk
>
> ...any suggestions please?

The following text is taken from:
https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd#libraries

Tkd requires version 8.6 (or greater) of the Tcl/Tk libraries installed. A small exception is when creating a self-contained installation on Windows. See details below. Tcl/Tk itself requires the x11 libraries installed on Linux only.

On Wednesday, 1 July 2015 at 07:37:48 UTC, Paul wrote:
> Hmmm, I have libtcl8.6 and libtk8.6 installed already. The only dev packages I see are tclcl and tclap - I can't find any libtk -dev package.
>
> I was hoping to keep a tight rein on what was required to be installed to simplify deployment but its spiraling out of control again LOL.

The following text is taken from:
https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd#building

* It's recommended to use the dub build tool to build all Tkd projects.

On Wednesday, 1 July 2015 at 12:40:31 UTC, Paul wrote:
> Thanks Marc, I found the required packages... it threw me because they don't have any version number in the repo ... and the example works just

The following text is taken from:
https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd#libraries

Tkd requires version 8.6 (or greater) of the Tcl/Tk libraries installed. A small exception is when creating a self-contained installation on Windows. See details below. Tcl/Tk itself requires the x11 libraries installed on Linux only.

----

This is exactly why you use dub, so you don't have to worry about all this!

On Thursday, 2 July 2015 at 17:41:45 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>
> This is exactly why you use dub, so you don't have to worry about all this!

You're right, there's sufficient information there if using dub.

On Thursday, 2 July 2015 at 18:34:13 UTC, Paul wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 July 2015 at 17:41:45 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>>
>> This is exactly why you use dub, so you don't have to worry about all this!
>
> You're right, there's sufficient information there if using dub.

Please read that page again.