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"Reini Urban" <rurban AT x-ray DOT at> wrote in message 
news:6910a60712131738h24354578jc8ba5b1629560005 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com...
> Cygwin perl-Tk for native Win32 worked fine for several years, but stopped
> working some years ago.
> Since the maintainer is dead, the situation didn't improve.

Wwll, I'm sorry to hear that, for our sakes.

I have resolved my Perl/Tk issues with help from you and others here. I 
needed to put /usr/bin/X11R6 on my path (which resolved the dll not found 
issue) and to run XWin (which allowed a Perl/Tk window to display).

It looked pretty ugly, all in all. I suppose I could devote some time to 
study and end up with a server configuration that gave me decent-looking 
fonts and colors and so on. Of course I would still be looking a an X window 
with X widgets in it.

It's all pretty disappointing, compared to ActiveState's implementation, 
which looks much better and requires no setup, no extraneous directories on 
my path, and no otherwise uneeded daemons.

After all the discussion about AS vs. Cygwin Perl (see "Wish Setup would 
accept my Perl") I've fixed up most of my scripts so they run equally well 
on either Perl. It wasn't that hard; as others suggested, it was mostly a 
matter of cleanliness and discipline. But the Cygwin Perl/Tk issue is a 
showstopper for me; I will have to keep AS Perl around just to run my Tk 
scripts. 



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