Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3ABB7A0A.7C8B409E@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:30:02 -0500 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nhv AT cape DOT com CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: building the _tkinter.a or _tkinter.dll for cygwin References: <000201c0b37d$3bac37c0$a300a8c0 AT nhv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Norman Vine wrote: > > _tkinter and its variants will work just fine with the > Cygwin tcltk distribution > > You will need the tcl/tk x11 include files though > These live in their normal place in /usr/include/x11 > You will either need to down load the tcltk source distribution > as these are no longer distributed in the Cygwin package > or you can get just the headers from here > http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/cygwin/X11.zip Be warned that doing this will clobber the pseudo-X11 include file "/usr/include/X11/x11.h" that is part of the cygwin xpm package; this include file is for the "noX" version of xpm. Why can't the tcl/tk x11 include files live in the *normal* /usr/X11R6/include/X11 location? --Chuck -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple