sherpa runs as a self-contained binary, and will more or less allow you to do all of the mundane things required to build another self-contained binary, as well as maintain a local Tcl/Tk build system.
Sherpa is built and installed with Odie.
A complete reference of commands is available here: /fossil/odie/doc/trunk/doc/sherpa.pdf Z 0757437449f675d4a5d4bece432e6bca