On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:17:37AM -0800, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > I've been using the tk800 native windows functionality for years with > cygwin. You just have to recompile/install with each perl change. If I > remember correctly, with the most recent cygwin/perl/tk800.024, I > haven't even had to patch it. The big headache is that you need to play > games with rebase to get IO and Menubutton to work correctly.
> Charles Plager wrote: > > 0) Get a copy of Tk-800.024.tar.gz from the web > 1) cd /usr/X11R6/lib > 2) ln -s libX11.dll.a libX11.a > 3) cd ~/mybuildarea > 4) tar xzf Tk-800.024.tar.gz > 5) cd Tk800.024/ > 6) less README.cygwin > 7) perl Makefile.PL x > 8) make && make test && make install To clarify, using "perl Makefile.PL x" builds an X windows Perl/Tk. Without the x, it builds to use native windows ala the Win32 port. IIRC, last time I've tried either I got some test failures, but a by-and-large functional Perl/Tk. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
