| This is the SQLite extension for Tcl using something akin to | |
| the Tcl Extension Architecture (TEA). To build it: | |
| ./configure ...flags... | |
| e.g.: | |
| ./configure --with-tcl=/path/to/tcl/install/root | |
| or: | |
| ./configure --with-tclsh=/path/to/tcl/install/root | |
| Run ./configure --help for the full list of flags. | |
| The configuration process will fail if tclConfig.sh cannot be found. | |
| The makefile will only honor CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS passed to the | |
| configure script, not those directly passed to the makefile. | |
| Then: | |
| make test install | |
| ----------------------- THE PREFERRED WAY --------------------------- | |
| The preferred way to build the TCL extension for SQLite is to use the | |
| canonical source code tarball. For Unix: | |
| ./configure --with-tclsh=$(TCLSH) | |
| make tclextension-install | |
| For Windows: | |
| nmake /f Makefile.msc tclextension-install TCLSH_CMD=$(TCLSH) | |
| In both of the above, replace $(TCLSH) with the full pathname of | |
| of the tclsh that you want the SQLite extension to work with. See | |
| step-by-step instructions at the links below for more information: | |
| https://sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/doc/compile-for-unix.md | |
| https://sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/doc/compile-for-windows.md | |
| And info about the extension's Tcl interface can be found at: | |
| https://sqlite.org/tclsqlite.html | |
| The whole point of the amalgamation-autoconf tarball (in which this | |
| README.txt file is embedded) is to provide a means of compiling SQLite | |
| that does not require first installing TCL and/or "tclsh". The | |
| canonical Makefile in the SQLite source tree provides more | |
| capabilities (such as the the ability to run test cases to ensure that | |
| the build worked) and is better maintained. The only downside of the | |
| canonical Makefile is that it requires a TCL installation. But if you | |
| are wanting to build the TCL extension for SQLite, then presumably you | |
| already have a TCL installation. So why not just use the more-capable | |
| and better-maintained canoncal Makefile? | |
| As of version 3.50.0, this build process uses "teaish": | |
| https://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/r/teaish | |
| which is conceptually derived from the pre-3.50 toolchain, TEA: | |
| http://core.tcl-lang.org/tclconfig | |
| http://core.tcl-lang.org/sampleextension | |
| It to works for us. It might also work for you. But we cannot | |
| promise that. | |
| If you want to use this TEA builder and it works for you, that's fine. | |
| But if you have trouble, the first thing you should do is go back | |
| to using the canonical Makefile in the SQLite source tree. | |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------ | |
| UNIX BUILD | |
| ========== | |
| Building under most UNIX systems is easy, just run the configure | |
| script and then run make. For example: | |
| $ cd sqlite-*-tea | |
| $ ./configure --with-tcl=/path/to/tcl/install/root | |
| $ make test | |
| $ make install | |
| WINDOWS BUILD | |
| ============= | |
| On Windows this build is known to work on Cygwin and some Msys2 | |
| environments. We do not currently support Microsoft makefiles for | |
| native Windows builds. | |