Re: Tcl/Tk + XFree86 in Cygwin?

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

search the mailing list archives.  This was discussed in just the past 
month.  However, the first "step" is to help (on the insight mailing 
list, where this work goes on) get cygwin's MS-display version of tcl/tk 
updated to the 8.3 codebase.

Then test.  and more test.  and more test.

And only then worry about a second version of tcl/tk for cygwin that 
uses X-display.  (Fact: the MS-display version will NOT go away; for all 
the remote display advantages, who wants to have to crank up an Xserver 
just to run gdb? -- right now, the gdb debugger is THE use of tcl/tk on 
cygwin).

See you on the insight list.

--Chuck


Arthur Taylor wrote:


> Has anyone started work on compiling a version of Tcl/Tk to link to the
> XFree86 libraries that are now part of cygwin?
>
> So far the Tcl/Tk ports seem to do their Tk displays to MS-Windows.  I'm
> not sure there is much of an advantage using cygwin-Tcl/Tk to the
> regular Tcl/Tk (other than compiling packages using gcc instead of
> Visual C++).  However, if one were using the Xlib rountines from
> XFree86, then one could use X to remotely display a GUI.  This could
> spark a number of applications with regard to tele-commuting.
>
> Just wondering out loud.
> Arthur
>
>
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