Building Python with Tcl/Tk on Cygwin_NT-5.1

[Jason Tishler]

Dean,

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:01:13AM -0800, Dean N. Williams wrote:
> I am getting the following error message from the Python build:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>  File "/usr/local/ASD_work/cdat/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 
> 38, in ?
>    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
> ImportError: No module named _tkinter
> Python Tkinter import failed.
> 
> 
> Have you seen this type of error message before?

No.

> I've attached the following log files for each build.

It appears you did not carefully read the build logs yourself:

    building '_tkinter' extension
    gcc -shared -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base build/temp.cygwin-1.5.12-i686-2.4/_tkinter.o build/temp.cygwin-1.5.12-i686-2.4/tkappinit.o -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/ASD_work/cdat/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L. -ltk8.4 -ltcl8.4 -lpython2.4 -o build/lib.cygwin-1.5.12-i686-2.4/_tkinter.dll
    /usr/local/ASD_work/cdat/lib/libtk8.4.a(tkWindow.o)(.text+0x1093):tkWindow.c: undefined reference to `_XDestroyWindow'
    ...
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Hence, you were unsuccessful building _tkinter.  This is why the import
above fails.

> [snip]
> 
> What else am I missing to do?

Using the pre-built Python and Tcl/Tk packages that are part of the
standard Cygwin distribution instead of attempting to build your own.

Jason

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