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Thrall, Bryan schrieb:
> RE: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00890.html
>
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> 2009/7/24 Wolfgang Goetz:
>>>>> http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Tk+804.028_501
>>>>> ohjeh.. perl 5.8.8 is yellow for cygwin.
>>>>> there seems to be no interest at all for the moment.
>>>>
>>>> I had some spare time some time ago to fix most of the issues, it compiles now ,
>>>> just the event loop still needs to be reconfigured.
>>>
>>> is /usr/bin/widget working for you? ?all examples?
>>> the funny thing in my (better: my companies) environment:
>>> 'widget' solely throws errors. under debugger control all is fine.
>>> This smells like optimization/parameter flaws for me.
>>> (mainly the -O3, maybe more)
>>
>> No,
>> It's just the wrong eventloop configuration.
>> A simple fix, but it needs at least a day to dig through it again and test it.
>> I mailed Slaven to do that, but he also had no time yet.
>
> It sounds like you were on the verge of fixing this problem, but it doesn't look like there's been any progress since that last email (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tk/ lists the latest release as from November 2008).
>
> Is there a patch or some other workaround for this problem? Because of it, we are having to delay upgrading our application to Cygwin 1.7.

Do you need Win32 native Tk or just x Tk?
My patch was just to support Win32 Tk. I have no time for this in the 
next month.

x Tk aka the perl-tk package just has to be recompiled against latest 
perl, cygwin and gcc.
-- 
Reini Urban
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