PerlTK under Windows

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> 
>> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>
>>> However I'd like PerlTk to fall back to using Windows widgets much 
>>> like rxvt will do a Windows window if there is no X server to connect 
>>> to.
>>
>>
>> Just how rxvt manages to use both X11 and Win32GUI is unique, as has 
>> been discussed before at length. Don't expect anything else X11 based 
>> to do that on Cygwin.
>>
>> perl-Tk is X11-based because it *does not compile* on Cygwin for 
>> Win32. PTC.
>>
>>> I know that this is doable because I'm using ccperl (a Perl from 
>>> IBM/Rational that comes with it's Clearcase product). It would be 
>>> super cool if this worked.
>>
>>
>> How does this prove that it's possible?
>>
>>> Just think, one would be able to easily write GUI apps from Perl to 
>>> run natively on Windows...
>>
>>
>> If that's what you want, then it's already possible with ActivePerl, 
>> which IIRC includes Tk OOTB.
> 
> 
> Now you're proving my point. It's clear that both ActivePerl and IBM 
> Rational's ccperl (which is based off of ActiveState Perl BTW) can do it 
> therefore that's the exact prove that it's possible - isn't it?


Almost anything is possible with the right amount of effort and know-how.
The point is that there is significant work to get this to work right in
the Cygwin environment.  The code isn't set up to handle both POSIXy/UNIXy
and Windows environments simultaneously.  Neither of the above two are
doing this.  Theirs are Windows ports only.

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