Building Python with Tcl/Tk on Cygwin_NT-5.1
Kartic
kartic.krishnamurthy at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 10:46:32 EST 2005
Dean,
It has been quite sometime since I did that. I had installed Tcl/TK in
a non-standard location on my Freebsd box.
So, for Python to compile _tkinter, in the configure script I passed
the location of the Tcl/Tk includes and libs. So, you will have to find
out where in the Cygwin tree the tcl includes and libraries are
installed.
On my Freebsd box, I did:
CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/tcl/include" \ # that is a - capital i
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/tcl/lib" \
./configure \
.... rest of configure options.
(put this in something like do-conf) and at the prompt type sh do-conf.
OR
you can use the --with-libs='lib1 ...' option for the configure
script. You will to give the path to your TCL libraries against this
option.
Do a configure --help to see the available configure options with some
help strings.
But like Jason mentioned, why don't you use the stock Python install
that comes with Cygwin; it is tkinter enabled and works just fine?
(unless you have a compelling reason to install from source)
Thanks,
--Kartic
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