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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject:  Re: PerlTk under Cygwin?
Date:  Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:59:22 -0800
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David Christensen wrote:

> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> Has anybody managed to install Tk for Perl running under Cygwin?
>
> I've beaten my head against Perl/TK on Cygwin repeatedly over the 
> years. The only way I succeeded was to use ActivePerl and keep it 
> isolated from Cygwin -- basically, use the Cygwin environment for 
> editing and use Command Prompt, Windows Explorer, etc., to launch 
> ActivePerl scripts.

Oh I often work as a Clearcase administrator and Clearcase comes with 
it's own, ActiveState based Perl called ccperl. I've been using that 
develop a PerlTk based application. However I much prefer the Cygwin 
environment over a cmd prompt. ActiveState Perl doesn't handle windows 
that use ptys such as rxvt and so doing ccperl -d <my PerlTk script> 
does not work under rxvt. Also, that debugger doesn't seem to use 
ReadLine thus command history and editing in the Perl debugger is 
different, etc. Plus I'm not always at a place with Clearcase installed. 
I don't have Clearcase installed on my home computer, for example.

It would be good if PerlTk could work from Cygwin's Perl (and perhaps 
even have a package in Cygwin's setup.exe to install it or have it 
installed by default). At the very least PerlTk should be installable 
from CPAN and be able to be built/made so that it's usable.

After using PerlTk a little bit I'm finding that this PerlTk thing could 
be very useful to me as I've never gotten into the monolithic MS Visual 
Studio and C++ or C# way of building GUI apps. I'm much more comfortable 
in Perl...


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