FindTclsh

Finds the Tcl shell command-line executable (tclsh), which includes the Tcl (Tool Command Language) interpreter:

find_package(Tclsh [<version>] [...])

Result Variables

This module defines the following variables:

Tclsh_FOUND

Added in version 3.3.

Boolean indicating whether the (requested version of) tclsh executable was found.

Tclsh_VERSION

Added in version 4.2.

The version of tclsh found.

Cache Variables

The following cache variables may also be set:

TCL_TCLSH

The path to the tclsh executable.

Deprecated Variables

The following variables are provided for backward compatibility:

TCLSH_FOUND

Deprecated since version 4.2: Use Tclsh_FOUND, which has the same value.

Boolean indicating whether the (requested version of) tclsh executable was found.

TCLSH_VERSION_STRING

Deprecated since version 4.2: Use Tclsh_VERSION, which has the same value.

The version of tclsh found.

Examples

In the following example, this module is used to find the tclsh command-line executable, which is then executed in a process to evaluate TCL code from the script file located in the project source directory:

find_package(Tclsh)
if(Tclsh_FOUND)
  execute_process(COMMAND ${TCL_TCLSH} example-script.tcl)
endif()

See Also

• The FindTCL module to find the Tcl installation.

• The FindTclStub module to find the Tcl Stubs Library.