[allknowingfrog]

Does anyone know of a good tutorial for getting starting with Tcl/Tk that still makes sense in 2024? I'm really intrigued by the idea of building and shipping simple, cross-platform GUIs, but I'm completely overwhelmed by all of the installation and configuration options. It seems like tclkit is supposed to be the go-tool tool for self-contained executables, but I honestly can't even figure out which site is the source-of-truth for downloading it, let alone installing it.

[cmacleod4]

I recommend https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/LUCK as a very easy way to build self-contained executables which bundle Tcl, a large choice of extensions, and your own code.

There is a tutorial on the Tcl wiki which should be reasonably up-to-date - https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Tcl+Tutorial+Lesson+0 .

[ofalkaed]

John Ousterhout's Tcl and the Tk Toolkit is great and has been updated to Tcl/Tk 8.5 which is recent enough to not cause headaches. Don't think it goes into self contained executable but covers everything else very well.

Edit: Just remembered that Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide by Flynt has a chapter on self contained executables and the various tools for making them. Have not looked into this book much so can't comment on it.