Tclkit

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tclkit and tclkitsh are single-file distributions of Tcl (based on libtcl) that can be launched without prior installation; they store all auxiliary files in an internal filesystem-in-a-database. The main difference between tclkit and tclkitsh is on Windows, where the former is built as a graphical application (so not using real stdio) and the latter as a console application (forcing the opening of a console window if run from Explorer); these differences are a feature of the Windows platform.

Tclkit is an implementation of Tcl. Other implementations of Tcl.

Tools are available for simply building user applications into single file distributions based on tclkit, through concatenating a further filesystem-database file. Since this technique is orthogonal (and largely transparent) to the application, it has become a very popular technique for distributing applications implemented in Tcl.