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Re: building the _tkinter.a or _tkinter.dll for cygwin


Norman Vine wrote:
>
> _tkinter and its variants will work just fine with the
> Cygwin tcltk distribution
> 
> You will need the tcl/tk x11 include files though
> These live in their normal place in /usr/include/x11
> You will either need to down load the tcltk source distribution
> as these are no longer distributed in the Cygwin package
> or you can get just the headers from here
> http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/cygwin/X11.zip

Be warned that doing this will clobber the pseudo-X11 include file
"/usr/include/X11/x11.h" that is part of the cygwin xpm package; this
include file is for the "noX" version of xpm.

Why can't the tcl/tk x11 include files live in the *normal*
/usr/X11R6/include/X11 location?

--Chuck

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