[GRASS-dev] WinGRASS needs TclTk 8.4

[Michael Barton]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:21 AM, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> On 30/01/08 10:01, Paul Kelly wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Michael Barton wrote:
>>> Actually I tried that and it still didn't work, though maybe for  
>>> other reasons.
>> Can you say what the exact problem is - detailed description,  
>> exact error message and so on? It seems people are trying to help  
>> but are just guessing at what the solution is because the problem  
>> isn't clear: "still didn't work" really isn't very helpful.
>
> William reported more details here:
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2008-January/034871.html
>
>> Over Christmas, I compiled Tcl/Tk 8.5 myself on Windows and  
>> compiled GRASS against that. Everything seemed to work well and  
>> those binaries should be able to be included in a GRASS binary  
>> distribution to reduce the likelihood of incompatiblities such as  
>> Michael seems to be experiencing. I just still haven't had time to  
>> fully document it, but if knowing that it is possible should be an  
>> encouragement to anyone else to try (it was really quite easy  
>> compared to compiling some of the other pre-requisite binary  
>> packages) then I hope this mention will serve that purpose!
>
> This is the GPL'd original tcltk, I assume ? If you have the  
> binaries and the source code, it would be great if you could make  
> it available so that we can include it directly into the  
> distribution for those who do not want to install tcltk themselves.  
> And the dev file for me to compile against...
>
> In short: I'm very willing to continue to create the wingrass  
> packages, but I don't seem to find the time to also have to set up  
> the compilation environment with all the dependencies. Currently  
> I'm using what you provided more than a year ago...
>
> Moritz

Thanks very much Moritz.

Michael

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