A C/C++ program can be easily wrapped with a Tcl extension. Extension Wizard (xWizard) will help you generate interface code for Tcl extensions. It can generate C/C++ object interface of loadable extension for Windows, Linux, and Unix. It can save you a lot of time to write a Tcl extension, for example, with thousands commands. xWizard is very easy to use.

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xWizard required tktable and tkwizard. To use xWizard you can run xwizard.tcl in the xwizard folder or in the samples/extension/xwizard folder of MyrmecoX Professional.

Suppose you have generated a MyPackage.cpp file with the xWizard 2.0, following steps show you how to create a project and compile MyPackage.cpp with VC++.

1. Start VC++, Open File/New menu and Select

New Project "Wind32 Dynamic-Link Library"; Project name: MyPackage; Location: samples/wizard

2. Active Project/Add To Project/Files add file

MyPackage.cpp

3. Active Project/Setting/Link set

In object/library modules add tclstub83.lib for stub enable lib or tcl83.lib for stubless lib