How to install and Run TCL

In this article, we will see how to install TCL on windows and run it. First we will download TCL from this link http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads  .

Choose the binaries depend on your System types either 64 bit or 32 bit. Double click on downloaded setup to start installing TCL.

Accept license agreement.

Choose path. I am installing on C:\Tcl default path

So TCL is installed on your windows.  Now we will set path of C:\Tcl\bin\ directory so, we can run it from any location.

To set path just copy the path up to bin directory ( In my case it is C:Tcl\bin\ ) and fire command like this

Path is set so we can run TCL from any location. Lets try to run it from D drive. First create one small TCL and save it on D drive with name Hello.tcl . So the path is D:\Hello.tcl

To run this file open command prompt and go to path D: and execute command tclsh Hello.tcl like this .

It will print output Hello World !