Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Charles Wilson Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Tcl/Tk + XFree86 in Cygwin? Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:06:09 -0400 Lines: 43 Message-ID: <3D1A48E1.3000500@ece.gatech.edu> References: <3D1A4355.61DBA0E5@noaa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: ibb-429.ibb.gatech.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025132749 9218 128.61.133.79 (26 Jun 2002 23:05:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:05:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/