PerlTk under Cygwin?

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 17 16:53:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:38:26AM -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
>Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 5:44 PM:
>>Bruce Dobrin wrote:
>>>Well, obsolete or not, the tk800.025 for win32 from sourceforge is
>>>building and working on 1.5.18 with it's perl5.8.5.  Any chance a
>>>non-obsolete version for win32 anytime?  We use this native a lot.
>>
>>804.x doesn't build for Win32, and as X11 was working with only a minor
>>patch and I didn't care either way, I decided to stop supporting Win32.
>>You could take the source tarball from there and try recompiling with
>>the current perl and see how that works for you.
>
>I'm curious about the patch you mention, since I maintain an internal
>PerlTk Cygwin package for my company, and I haven't had any problems
>OOTB (the last version I built was 804.027 against perl 5.8.7).
>
>And I'd love to have PerlTk officially packaged :-)

If you're building it OOTB, you're only a couple of steps away from
being a package maintainer.  Want to volunteer?

cgf

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