How can I compile/install wordnet on a recent macOS?

I want install WordNet on macOS Mojave. I have downloaded WordNet-3.0.tar.gz and ran the ./configure step, but it finished with the line

checking for Tcl configuration... configure: WARNING: Can't find Tcl configuration definitions

and no Makefile is created. I guess, Mojave doesn't include Tcl/Tk anymore.

Is there a way to install WordNet without the Tcl/Tk frontend? I only need the wn cli tool.

Solution 1:

You can install wordnet directly with homebrew using brew install wordnet.

If you don't want to do that, you can l tcl/tk with homebrew:

brew install tcl-tk

This should at least fix the tcl/tk error.

To install homebrew use the script from brew.sh

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"