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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...".


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