Message-Id: <199905171447.KAA29080@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:45:43 -0400 From: Denis Laroche Subject: Re: Tcl/Tk on NT built with the X libraries To: Michael Fonte Cc: "'Denis Laroche'" , "'cygwin-list'" Organization: Pratt & Whitney Canada MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Accept-Language: en References: <000601bea071$8e0b33c0$23ed6bc0 AT hawk DOT sensor DOT com> Thanks a lot for the information. Did you try to build the latest version of the 8.0 tree, i.e. 8.0.5? We also using [incr Tk] and the mega-widgets from [incr Widgets], version 3.0.1. Would you know if this has also been ported? Thanks again. Michael Fonte wrote: > I have built tcl/tk against the X libs under cygwin and NutCracker. You > need to modify the code a bit. I used the unix subdirectory instead of the > win subdir. You still need to look for the 'WIN_32' (__WIN_32__) ifdefs and > comment them out or just undef __WIN_32__. > You will also need an X server on the PC side but if you are just > exporting them to a unix box you won't need one. > I had a small problem with tk and the cygwin build, I ended up with a > transparent window but I think this had more to do with an incorrect path > where tk could not find a background color. > You can get the pre-compiled X11R6.4 libs/client for Cygwin B20 from > http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/grads/win32/X11R6.4/ > > Michael > > -------------------------------------------- > Hi everybody, > > i read through the mailing lists but i'm still not sure if it's possible > to do the following and if it works: building Tcl/Tk on NT with the X > libraries so that the windows of a wish script on NT could be sent to a > remote X server. > > We built an application with the Windows version of Tcl/Tk from > Scriptics and now some people would like to run it on their Unix > workstation. The application can't be ported to Unix because it's linked > with C code using an imaging library available only on NT. > > I installed the full distribution of Cygwin, but i have not seen the X > libraries. Is there a binary version of the libraries available > somewhere, or is it relatively easing to build them from the sources? > > Thanks. > -- > Denis Laroche > Pratt & Whitney Canada, Test Facilities Computing > 1000 Marie-Victorin, 01AG3 > Longueuil, Québec, Canada, J4G 1A1 > tel. 450-677-9411 x5224 > UTC tecnet 647-5224 > email denis DOT laroche AT pwc DOT ca > -------------------------------------------- > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Denis Laroche Pratt & Whitney Canada, Test Facilities Computing 1000 Marie-Victorin, 01AG3 Longueuil, Québec, Canada, J4G 1A1 tel. 450-677-9411 x5224 UTC tecnet 647-5224 email denis DOT laroche AT pwc DOT ca -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com