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From: Webb S. on 30 Nov 2009 13:49
I just wanted to publicly acknowledge the author of freewrap.

I was able to create a stand-alone executable from a hello world Tk
script with a single command line "freewrap foo.tcl" creates foo.exe
in the current directory. This foo.exe runs great after being
transfered between machines on

I haven't played with it enough to know if it suits my long term
purpose (GUI front end to a data analysis and database app), but it
worked great at passing the first test!

Anyway, sorry for the noise, but if you want to convert a tk script
and send it to your M$ loving friends, use freewrap.

http://freewrap.sourceforge.net/
From: Torsten Berg on 1 Dec 2009 04:25
Hi,

yes, freewrap is great! I use it for all my Windows version of my
applications.

> I haven't played with it enough to know if it suits my long term
> purpose  (GUI front end to a data analysis and database app), but it
> worked great at passing the first test!

I have an application that is a front end to a database hosted on
another server and freewrap also works great here.

Good luck, Torsten
From: Gerry Snyder on 1 Dec 2009 11:59
Webb S. wrote:
> I just wanted to publicly acknowledge the author of freewrap.

Me too!

>
> ....
>
> I haven't played with it enough to know if it suits my long term
> purpose (GUI front end to a data analysis and database app)....

If the freewrap (or tkwrap) binary includes all the extensions you need,
making an executable remains trivial. My main project needs just SQLite
and tktable, so freewrap is still very handy.

If your project grows to needing multiple text and binary files in
addition to the original executable, then you need to look at starkit /
starpack / tclkit systems to see whether they meet your needs better.

We are lucky to have both.


Gerry
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