X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: PerlTK under Windows Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:20:56 -0800 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <43A0B0AB.1060701@users.sourceforge.net> <43A0E96F.10000@cygwin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) In-Reply-To: <43A0E96F.10000@cygwin.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: >> >>> Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> >>>> However I'd like PerlTk to fall back to using Windows widgets much >>>> like rxvt will do a Windows window if there is no X server to >>>> connect to. >>> >>> Just how rxvt manages to use both X11 and Win32GUI is unique, as has >>> been discussed before at length. Don't expect anything else X11 >>> based to do that on Cygwin. >>> >>> perl-Tk is X11-based because it *does not compile* on Cygwin for >>> Win32. PTC. >>> >>>> I know that this is doable because I'm using ccperl (a Perl from >>>> IBM/Rational that comes with it's Clearcase product). It would be >>>> super cool if this worked. >>> >>> How does this prove that it's possible? >>> >>>> Just think, one would be able to easily write GUI apps from Perl to >>>> run natively on Windows... >>> >>> If that's what you want, then it's already possible with ActivePerl, >>> which IIRC includes Tk OOTB. >> >> Now you're proving my point. It's clear that both ActivePerl and IBM >> Rational's ccperl (which is based off of ActiveState Perl BTW) can do >> it therefore that's the exact prove that it's possible - isn't it? > > Almost anything is possible with the right amount of effort and > know-how. The point is that there is significant work to get this to > work right in the Cygwin environment. The code isn't set up to handle > both POSIXy/UNIXy and Windows environments simultaneously. Neither of > the above two are doing this. Theirs are Windows ports only. OK, make that "there's already a working example...". -- 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/