Tcl/Tk on NT built with the X libraries

Denis Laroche denis.laroche@pwc.ca
Mon May 31 21:10:00 GMT 1999


Thanks a lot for the information.

Did you try to build the latest version of the 8.0 tree, i.e. 8.0.5?
We also using [incr Tk] and the mega-widgets from [incr Widgets], version 3.0.1.
Would you know if this has also been ported?

Thanks again.

Michael Fonte wrote:

>   I have built tcl/tk against the X libs under cygwin and NutCracker.  You
> need to modify the code a bit.  I used the unix subdirectory instead of the
> win subdir.  You still need to look for the 'WIN_32' (__WIN_32__) ifdefs and
> comment them out or just undef __WIN_32__.
>   You will also need an X server on the PC side but if you are just
> exporting them to a unix box you won't need one.
>   I had a small problem with tk and the cygwin build, I ended up with a
> transparent window but I think this had more to do with an incorrect path
> where tk could not find a background color.
>   You can get the pre-compiled X11R6.4 libs/client for Cygwin B20 from
> http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/grads/win32/X11R6.4/
>
>   Michael
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Hi everybody,
>
> i read through the mailing lists but i'm still not sure if it's possible
> to do the following and if it works: building Tcl/Tk on NT with the X
> libraries so that the windows of a wish script on NT could be sent to a
> remote X server.
>
> We built an application with the Windows version of Tcl/Tk from
> Scriptics and now some people would like to run it on their Unix
> workstation. The application can't be ported to Unix because it's linked
> with C code using an imaging library available only on NT.
>
> I installed the full distribution of Cygwin, but i have not seen the X
> libraries. Is there a binary version of the libraries available
> somewhere, or is it relatively easing to build them from the sources?
>
> Thanks.
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> Denis Laroche
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Longueuil, Québec, Canada, J4G 1A1
tel. 450-677-9411 x5224
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email denis.laroche@pwc.ca



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