Using OpenSees on MAC and TCL

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fcharney
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Using OpenSees on MAC and TCL

Post by fcharney »

I can find the OpenSees binary for a Mac, but what about the TCL interpreter? I can find Active Tcl/Wish (off of the OpenSees site), but this will not have the add ons for the Mac.

Is there a version of the OpenSees TCL for the Mac OS?
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Post by fmk »

The OpenSees binary is a Tcl interpreter, it just adds new commands to the tcl language for finite element analysis. It however needs the Tcl/Tk software libraries to be installed on your machine to run.

When you install the Tcl-Tk package you are provided with some additional Tcl interpreters. These are wish and tclsh.

The OpenSees binary download for a mac running on an intel processeor (i didn't compile a universal binary) includes 2 interpreters. These are OpenSees (tclsh+FE) and OpenSeesTk (wish+FE). The Mac version can be found at the bottom of the download page.

Tcl/Tk Download (you want version 8.5.something):
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http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.html
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OpenSees Download:
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http://opensees.berkeley.edu/OpenSees/user/download.php
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