didn't work "out of the box"

[Johnicholas]

I'm not sure exactly what wasn't working, but the jim+sdl combination wasn't working on my (possibly messed up ubuntu 14.04) system. I hacked in something that works on my fork, though I am not an expert and it is not elegant.

[dbohdan]

I know this is an old issue, but you're interested in using Jim Tcl you should check out https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl/ for a maintained version. If you still have SDL problems with it, create an issue there.