The tclcompile package implements commands to compile Tcl scripts into the Tcl's internal byte code form. The generated files can be loaded into a Tcl application using the companion tbcload package.

As basic usage example, evaluating the following in a Tcl shell will generate a hello.tbc file containing the byte code for the Tcl script in hello.tcl.

package require tclcompiler
compiler::compile hello.tcl

For detailed usage, limitations and other information, see the Chapter 6 of the TclPro User's Guide. Although dated, most of the information there is still applicable.

The package supports Tcl 8.6 and Tcl 9.0. However, files compiled for Tcl 8 cannot be loaded into a Tcl 9 interpreter with tbcload and vice versa.

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