hi,

>
> what I meant was rather to use the trick during a release phase,
> not during installation.  That is, I would rather have users get
> tcl code in an already sys_gui()'d form.
might be an option, so,
for windows port just
comment line :
 
./tcl2c.bash < extern.pd > extern.tk2c
 
in the Makefile.
 
This means that you can't modify tk code,
but, for a port, it's ok ...
 
cheers,
 
Yves/