Re: [PD-dev] folder for tcl extensions

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

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• the standalone Wish has the directory Wish\ Shell.app/Contents/lib

in its auto_path. Thus you can place tcl extensions in this directory (i.e. embed them in the app package) and load them with [package require].

. auto_path is read/write

. tcl searches immediate subdirectories too

So, more cross-platformly perhaps, the sys_searchpath contents might be appended to auto_path. Then, if a gui external or library "example" has its binary in extra, extra/example directory will host its tcl part with a pkgIndex.tcl, declaring "package ifneeded example ..."). The only sys_gui call in the example's setup routine will be for "package require example".

Krzysztof