Re: PerlTK under Windows

["Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

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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.


Yaakov
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