Re: failed install of perl module Tk under cygwin

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 01:10 PM 1/5/2001, david_mcbride@notes.teradyne.com wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm not sure if this is the correct mailing list for this topic, but please
>bear with me.  I just installed cygwin on a win2k box yesterday.  I've been
>successfully installing some of my favorite perl modules via cpan.
>However, when I tried installing Tk, all seemed to be going well until the
>end when I received the following:
>
>   CPAN.pm: Going to build N/NI/NI-S/Tk800.022.tar.gz
>
>/usr/bin/perl is installed in /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin okay
>PPM for perl5.006001
>Test Compiling config/signedchar.c
>Test Compiling config/Ksprintf.c
>Test Compiling config/tod.c
>Test Compiling -DTIMEOFDAY_TZ config/tod.c
>TZ gettimeofday()
>Cannot find -lX11 anywhere at ./myConfig line 290.
>Compilation failed in require at Makefile.PL line 17.
>BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 19.
>Running make test
>   Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't test
>Running make install
>   Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't install
>
>
>Any suggestions?  Thanks.



Yes, visit www.cygwin.com/xfree.  You're missing X stuff that you can get 
from here.


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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