Additional community packages in ActiveTcl

The ActiveTcl distribution includes a set of additional community packages that are installed and ready to use in your programming projects. This page includes a complete list of packages and versions, categorized by the type of development area they are intended for.

Developer utilities

Package Version Description Details
bzip2 1.0.6 File compression package, built on top of libbzip2, a library for handling compressed data in the bzip2 format. docs
critcl 3.1.17 Tcl extension for embedding C language code in Tcl. docs
fontconfig 2.12.4 Library for configuring and customizing font access. docs
freetype2 2.6.5 Free and portable TrueType font rendering engine. docs
Img 1.4.6 Tk extension that adds support for a variety of image formats (.png, .jpg, .gif, etc.). docs
itcl 4.1.1 Object-oriented extensions to TCL. docs
itk 4.1.0 Framework for building mega-widgets in Tcl/TK. docs
libgd 2.24 Graphics library for fast image creation. docs
libiconv 1.15 Converts text from one encoding to another encoding. docs
libjpeg 9.0.2 The Independent JPEG Group’s JPEG software
libpng 1.6.34 Portable Network Graphics library
nsf 2.1.0 Next Scripting Framework docs
openssl 1.10.0.6 Open Secure Sockets Layer general cryptography library.
snack 2.2.10 Snack Sound Toolkit docs
tbcload 1.7.1 A package for loading precompiled bytecodes.
tclvfs 1.4.2 File System Management in TCL docs
tclx 8.4.1 Library for writing C language extensions to Tcl. docs
tls and tls-fips 1.7.13 Binding to OpenSSL toolkit. docs
Trf 2.1.4 Tcl extension based upon the principle of stacked channels. docs
trofs 0.4.9 TCL read-only filesystem. docs
thread 2.8.2 Tcl extension that allows script level manipulation of data shared between threads. docs
twapi 4.1.27 TCL Windows API extension docs
win_iconv 0.0.1 iconv using the Win32 API
wub 5.0.0 HTTP web-server written in Tcl. docs
XOTcl 1.6.8 Combines the ideas of scripting and object orientation. docs
zlib 1.2.11 General purpose data compression library. docs

User interfaces

Package Version Description Details
bwidget 1.9.11 A high-level widget set for Tcl/Tk that does not require a compiled extension library. docs
iwidgets 4.1 An object-oriented mega-widget set which extends Tcl/Tk. docs
tklib 0.6.1 A companion to Tcllib, for Tk related packages. docs
tktable 2.11 Create and manipulate tables. docs
treectrl 2.4.1 Create and manipulate hierarchical multicolumn widgets docs

Command line

Package Version Description Details
expect 5.45.3 A tool for automating interactive applications. docs
tkcon 2.7 A replacement for the standard console that comes with Tk. docs and reference

Database access

Package Version Description Details
metakit 2.4.9.7.1 An embeddable database for storing data efficiently and portably, without requiring complex runtime installation. docs
oracle-instantclient 12.2.0.1 Oracle Instant Client
postgres 9.6.3 An object-relational database system.
sqlite3 3.20.1 Tcl interface to the SQLite library. docs

Machine learning

Package Version Description Details
libtensorflow 1.1.0 An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence. docs

Text and markup processing

Package Version Description Details
expat 2.2.4 XML Parser Toolkit docs
libiconv 1.15 Library for converting between encodings. docs
libxml2 2.9.6 XML C parser and toolkit. docs
libxslt 1.1.31 XSLT C library for XML parsing, tree manipulation, and XPath support. docs
Tcllib 1.18 Collection of utility modules that provide a wide variety of functionality, from implementations of standard data structures to implementations of common networking protocols. docs
TclSOAP 1.6.8.1 Package to provide Tcl commands for SOAP remote procedure calls. docs
tclxml 3.2 XML parser API docs
tdom 0.8.3 Create an in-memory DOM tree from XML. docs