Recently I have migrated tcl version 8.4 used in a C/C++ based tool to tcl 8.6.6. I am trying below command:

clock format [clock seconds] -format "%Y-%m%d-%H%M"

its resulting in error that clock.tcl: no such file or directory. More info on tool: tool has integrated tcl interpreter within it to provide a tcl shell for the execution.

Note: command [clock seconds] works fine.

Any help is much appreciated.

Recently I have migrated tcl version 8.4 used in a C/C++ based tool to tcl 8.6.6. I am trying below command:

clock format [clock seconds] -format "%Y-%m%d-%H%M"

its resulting in error that clock.tcl: no such file or directory. More info on tool: tool has integrated tcl interpreter within it to provide a tcl shell for the execution.

Note: command [clock seconds] works fine.

Any help is much appreciated.

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1 Answer 1

Some parts of the clock command are implemented in a script in Tcl's internal script library in 8.6. In particular, the formatting and parsing subcommands (clock format and clock scan) are implemented that way (as a compilation scheme). That script is called clock.tcl and should be present in all Tcl installations.

It seems to be absent in yours. That means you have a broken installation; it is missing some of its essential parts, and the clock command might not be the only affected one. Putting the missing files in the right place (as siblings to init.tcl) will fix things.

Tcl 9.0 changes how the binding of the support files is done so this ought to be a thing of the past, though that will depend on exact build options...