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"Reini Urban" <rurban AT x-ray DOT at> wrote in message 
news:6910a60712130338u34d0d493y84d8649d8b688f91 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com...

> Run cygcheck /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll
> There you will find the missing libraries.

Thank you! I get "Error: could not find cygX11-6.dll"

> That's not entirely true. Tk works fine without X.
> Just perl-Tk requires an installed X, a running X server and
> a correct DISPLAY environment variable.

So I assume this is the problem.

> Native perl Tk under cygwin used to had some build problems which
> recently got fixed, if I remember correctly.
> You can try to build it by your own, without the odd X dependency.

So next I will try installing and running Cygwin's X server (if I can even 
recall how to spell X :) and see if that makes things work better; however 
that "odd X dependency" would make me leery of adopting Cygwin Perl/Tk (as 
opposed to ActiveState, which I'm currently using) and I would certainly 
like to know how to follow up on that suggestion. 



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