Perl Tk in Cygwin (using X)

[Charles Plager]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Charles Plager wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello,
>>        This is getting worse by the hour.  I went and grabbed Tk800.024 from a
>>CPAN site.  I did the setup as suggested by README.cygwin for X11 and
>>tried to make it.  It failed (errors posted at the bottom of this error
>>message).
>>
>>        I have successfully made Tk on this and another windows computer in the
>>Cygwin environment in the past (and it was also version 800.024).  I
>>have since upgraded cygwin (including gcc to(GCC) 3.3.1 (cygming
>>special) from 3.2.something).
>>
>>        Does anybody have any recent experience in building perlTk on cygwin?
>>
>>        Another question is how can I use the binaries on my computer from my
>>successful Tk build on another cygwin install?
>>
>>        Charles
>>
>>Errors at very bottom of this email.
>>[snip]
>>rm -f blib/arch/auto/Tk/Tk.dll
>>LD_RUN_PATH="" gcc -shared  -s -L/usr/local/lib Tk.o chnGlue.o evtGlue.o objGlue.o tixGlue.o tkGlue.o tkGlue_f.o tkWin32Dll.o  -o blib/arch/auto/Tk/Tk.dll pTk/libpTk.a /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int/CORE/libperl.dll.a
>>Tk.o(.text+0x1f3d):Tk.c: undefined reference to `_XSynchronize'
> 
> 
> It's obviously not finding (lib|cyg)X11 (it's not even on the link line).
> Do you have XFree86-prog package installed?  XFree86-bin?
> XFree86-lib-compat?
> 	Igor

I do and it's in my path:
cplager@pointyjr> echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/home/cplager/bin:/ProgramFiles/imagemagick-5.5.6-q16:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/Kerberos:/ProgramFiles/texmf/miktex/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/bin:/ProgramFiles/Hummingbird/Connectivity/7.11/Accessories/:/ProgramFiles/Microsoft 
Visual Studio/Common/Tools/WinNT:/ProgramFiles/Microsoft Visual 
Studio/Common/MSDev98/Bin:/ProgramFiles/Microsoft Visual 
Studio/Common/Tools:/ProgramFiles/Microsoft Visual 
Studio/VC98/bin:/c/docs/cplager/Local 
Settings/Temp/shortcuts:/usr/local/bin/root/bin/:/usr/X11R6/bin/:.





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