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On 20/01/2010 15:39, Reini Urban wrote:
> Do you need Win32 native Tk or just x Tk?
> My patch was just to support Win32 Tk. I have no time for this in the
> next month.

Nor should you need to.  I maintain the perl-Tk package, and we use the 
X11 interface because this is Cygwin, not ActivePerl.

> x Tk aka the perl-tk package just has to be recompiled against latest
> perl, cygwin and gcc.

I'll admit that I haven't used perl-Tk in a while, but I just tested 
/usr/bin/widget with perl-5.10.1-2 and see nothing wrong.


Yaakov

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