TCL on the Fox

The Fox is a sweet little low power linux SBC which can be used for hardware prototyping and just general fun computer controlled gizmos.

Many early adopters and prototypers only require software complexity (and error/exception handling) that can be easily provided with a few lines of a high level scripting language.

Problem of course is that standard linux Java is not going to fit on THAT flash, and Perl, about as bloatwarelike as it gets as scripting languages go, is also not easy to squeeze onto the built-in flash.

A good alternative for this type of environment is the Tcl scripting langage. It is free, very stable, and completely unburdened by licensing issues (BSD style open source license). As it turns out, most of Tcl can be shrunk down to about 760kB without much hassle or loss of functionality. This includes the most common text encodings as well as libraries such as http and msgcat.

All you need is a little Makefile to orchestrate the install.

License

This Makefile was developed by Zeebar Technology Services, Inc. and made open source in the fall of 2005. Use it at your own risk. Use it as you wish!