Looking for help getting tkinter to work.

[Francesco Bochicchio]

On Nov 1, 4:06 am, Shue Boks <shoebox56car... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to compile Python and Tcl/Tk on Linux using the following
> files:
>
> Python-3.1.1.tar.gz
> tcl8.5.7-src.tar.gz
>
> Cannot get tkinter to work after compiling & installing Tcl/Tk.  I get
> the following error after compiling Python:
>
> "Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules
> were not found:
> _tkinter
> To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for
> the module's name."
>
> Are the above files the correct versions to get tkinter to work?
>
> Thanks.

The version should be ok. I just compiled python3.1 against tcl/tk
8.5, only I used
the tcl/tk development packages coming with my distribution (Ubuntu).
I used
./configure --with-tk, so if you did not, try that first.

Did you run 'make install' during tcl/tk installation _before_ doing ./
configure in python source
directory?

If so, look where the library files ( e.g. libtk8.5.so ) and include
files (e.g tk.h ) have been placed
and check against the places where the function 'detect_tkinter' in
'setup.py' looks for them.

Ciao
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FB