Unable to configure: no Tcl_Init in -ltcl

[Van Schroeder]

Describe the bug
Can not complete configure. Complains that there is no Tcl_Init in -ltcl

checking for Tcl_Init in -ltcl... no
configure: error: The build tools needs libtcl. Please install it.

Yet tcl and libtcl are installed

output of sudo apt-get install libtcl8.6:
libtcl8.6 is already the newest version (8.6.8+dfsg-3)

A description of how to build and run the code

$ ./configure --disable-binary

Expected behavior
To be able to complete the config script so I can make

Environment:

• OS: Linux Mint 19.3

uname -a
Linux kiosk-dev 5.0.0-32-generic #34~18.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 10 10:36:02 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

• Compiler and Version
  $ g++ --version
  g++ (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1) 7.4.0

$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu118.04.1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-7/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-7 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu118.04.1)

[Loki Astari]

I will need to get a copy of Mint for virtual machine to try and reproduce.

[Loki Astari]

Try installing the dev version of tcl.

sudo apt-get install tcl-dev

You can test to see if the libtcl is installed with:

echo "int main(){}" > t.cpp
g++ t.cpp -ltcl

If that compiles then you have a correctly installed tcl.

[Van Schroeder]

No luck

Per your instructions, tcl does seem to be correctly installed:

$ echo "int main(){}" > t.cpp
$ g++ t.cpp -ltcl
$ ls
a.out  t.cpp

But no change in results with ./configure --disable-binary

[Loki Astari]

I managed to get it working on a clean Mint:

sudo apt-get install g++ git
git clone https://github.com/Loki-Astari/ThorsSerializer.git

I assume you already have the above.
The following addition packages are also needed.

# Libs needed by the build/test/validation tools
sudo apt-get install python-dev tcl-dev tk-dev cmake

# Libs needed by ThorsSerializer code
# The next line must be done on its own (not sure why)
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
# You will also need lib yaml unless you add --disable-yaml with the configure
sudo apt-get install libyaml-dev

At this point the rest should work

./configure --disable-binary
make
sudo make install

That should be everything.

[Van Schroeder]

On my end I installed tk-dev, libboost-all-dev and libyaml-dev

end result was

 Install - release - libThorSerialize17.so
End Installing Libraries
Building Dir Serialize Finish
Building Dir src Finish

Thanks for the rapid help in getting the issue resolved. Hopefully docs will be updated to get other mint users through the install process