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Re: Perl Tk in Cygwin (using X)
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Charles Plager wrote:
> Hello,
> This is getting worse by the hour. I went and grabbed Tk800.024 from a
> CPAN site. I did the setup as suggested by README.cygwin for X11 and
> tried to make it. It failed (errors posted at the bottom of this error
> message).
>
> I have successfully made Tk on this and another windows computer in the
> Cygwin environment in the past (and it was also version 800.024). I
> have since upgraded cygwin (including gcc to(GCC) 3.3.1 (cygming
> special) from 3.2.something).
>
> Does anybody have any recent experience in building perlTk on cygwin?
>
> Another question is how can I use the binaries on my computer from my
> successful Tk build on another cygwin install?
>
> Charles
>
> Errors at very bottom of this email.
> [snip]
> rm -f blib/arch/auto/Tk/Tk.dll
> LD_RUN_PATH="" gcc -shared -s -L/usr/local/lib Tk.o chnGlue.o evtGlue.o objGlue.o tixGlue.o tkGlue.o tkGlue_f.o tkWin32Dll.o -o blib/arch/auto/Tk/Tk.dll pTk/libpTk.a /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int/CORE/libperl.dll.a
> Tk.o(.text+0x1f3d):Tk.c: undefined reference to `_XSynchronize'
It's obviously not finding (lib|cyg)X11 (it's not even on the link line).
Do you have XFree86-prog package installed? XFree86-bin?
XFree86-lib-compat?
Igor
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