tclodbc installed, but tcl dosn't know

[royzhang]

Hi, anyone can help me with the issue:
I have installed tclodbc in redhat
/usr/local/tcl/bin/lib/tclodbc2.5/libtclodbc2.5.so
But tcl seems not realize the installation. How can we let it know, register in somewhere?

% package require tclodbc
can't find package tclodbc

 

[thacoda]

Hi,

I think you need to inform tcl/tk interpretor where to look for the package. Insert the following to your mainscript, before calling "package require"

lappend auto_path "/usr/local/tcl/bin/lib/tclodbc2.5"

I believe auto_path is a reserved variable of tcl/tk to define where the searchpath is for all package actions.

 

[royzhang]

Thank you for replying... thacoda. I added it, but still no luck.

% lappend auto_path "/usr/local/tcl/bin/lib/tclodbc2.5"
/usr/local/lib/tcl8.5 /usr/local/lib /usr/local/tcl/lib /usr/local/tcl/bin/lib/tclodbc2.5
% package require tclodbc
can't find package tclodbc

I found empty pkgIndex.tcl, is anything we can do on this file?

 

[thacoda]

Hmmm, first of all, I never used this package myself before. I am only able to give you generic answers.

So, you checked the pkgIndex.tcl file and it looks like it is empty?
Could it be that your tclodbc Linux-distribution is incomplete, because if I examine

http://wiki.tcl.tk/11914,

it tells me that the content AND position of this file is important for any package.

You might also want to check out

http://wiki.tcl.tk/2151,

it explains the usage of tclodbc package.

 

[royzhang]

Thanks for your kind advice. I'm going to check them out

 

[mikrom]

Do you know teacup?

http://wiki.tcl.tk/17341

http://wiki.tcl.tk/17305

1. First of all, look if you have teacup

c:\Users\Roman\Work>teacup version

        8.5.9.0.293667

if teacup is included in your tcl distribution, use it to install packages properly.

2. Look if required package is available

c:\Users\Roman\Work>teacup list tclodbc
entity  name    version platform
------- ------- ------- ----------
package tclodbc 2.5     win32-ix86
------- ------- ------- ----------
1 entity found

3. Then install the package

c:\Users\Roman\Work>teacup list tclodbc
entity  name    version platform
------- ------- ------- ----------
package tclodbc 2.5     win32-ix86
------- ------- ------- ----------
1 entity found

c:\Users\Roman\Work>teacup install tclodbc
Resolving tclodbc ... [package tclodbc 2.5 win32-ix86 @ [URL unfurl="true"]http://teapot.activestat[/URL]
e.com]
Resolving Tcl 8.4 -is package ... [package Tcl 8.5.9 _ ... Installed outside rep
ository, probing dependencies]

Retrieving package tclodbc 2.5 win32-ix86 ...@ [URL unfurl="true"]http://teapot.activestate.com[/URL] ...
 Ok

Installing into C:/Tcl/lib/teapot

Installing package tclodbc 2.5 win32-ix86

Then you can use the package in your script.

If you don't need the package, you can remove it

c:\Users\Roman\Work>teacup remove tclodbc
 Removing instance package tclodbc 2.5 win32-ix86

 

[royzhang]

Thank you mikrom, I have run that follow your instruction in Windows platform, It is very interesting although my installation is in Linux. I'm a newbie in Window.
The issue has been resolved. We got tcl lib dir first by

tcl> info library

and then soft link all *.so and *.tcl of tclodbc to tcl lib dir .

 

[mikrom]

I think teacup is platform independent, although I'm not sure if it's contained only in ActiveState Tcl distribution or in other distributions too - I'm using only ActiveTcl.

 

[royzhang]

I have ActiveTCL installed in Windows and tried teacup with your example, it's very cool. I didn't find the teacup in Linux where tcl/tk came with yum .

 

[mikrom]

But you can install ActiveTcl in Linux too:

http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads

 

[royzhang]

I'll definitely try that ... Thanks