Tk on Windows and Mac OS X 10.6
in [Ruby]
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From: Eric Christopherson on 17 Feb 2010 00:22 On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Albert Schlef <albertschlef(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Eric Christopherson wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Albert Schlef <albertschlef(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> package and everything will work fine. >> I did install ActiveTcl on Windows, but afterwards "require 'tk'" >> didn't work. It seems that I don't even have the proper Ruby files to >> "require". I also never told Ruby where my Tcl/Tk was installed. > > I [vaguely] remember having this problem. After I installed > ActiveState's package ruby wasn't able to see Tk's DLL. I believe my > problem had gone after I restarted Windows. Perhaps the folder the DLL > is in is added to Windows' registry somewhere and Windows notes it only > after a restart. I know very little about Windows so this is only a > guess. I just installed ActiveTcl, on my home machine this time, and I don't see any Ruby-specific files in its directory hierarchy. After rebooting, requiring 'tk' again yielded "LoadError: no such file to load -- tk", so I think I may be out of luck.
From: Albert Schlef on 17 Feb 2010 01:14 Eric Christopherson wrote: > I just installed ActiveTcl, on my home machine this time, and I don't > see any Ruby-specific files in its directory hierarchy. After > rebooting, requiring 'tk' again yielded "LoadError: no such file to > load -- tk", so I think I may be out of luck. I've just switched to my Windows box and tried to install Ruby + Tk. Like you, I've found out that Ruby (of RubyInstaller) doesn't come with some ruby files necessary to talk with Tk. E.g., it should have a file C:\Ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\tk.rb (and some more, including a DLL) but it doesn't have them. It seems like a change in recent RubyInstallers, because I remember easily installing Ruby+Tk on Windows in the past. I'll try to investigate this. Hidetoshi NAGAI, are you there? Do you know anything about this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: Albert Schlef on 17 Feb 2010 01:30 Albert Schlef wrote: > Like you, I've found out that Ruby (of RubyInstaller) doesn't come with > some ruby files necessary to talk with Tk. [...] > It seems like a change in recent RubyInstallers, because I remember > easily installing Ruby+Tk on Windows in the past. It seems I've solved the mystery: "RubyInstaller" doesn't come with Tk bindings, but Ruby's "One-Click Installer" does. So in the past it was the latter I was using, not the former. I'll shut up for a while and let more knowledgeable people than me join this discussion. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: Axel on 17 Feb 2010 03:38 Hi, don't know about MAC; that's what I know for Windows: You need to have: * TCL/TK installed (for example, from Active State) * The _right_ compiled Ruby-TK-Files * Your ENV-Variable "path" set to the right paths The Ruby-TK-Files depend on: * TK-Version (8.4, 8.5; 8.5 probably looks nicer) * Ruby version * Compiler, with which Ruby has been complied. AFAIK, it is sufficient to get the right ruby-files from "somewhere" and copy them to the right dirs in the Ruby dir. I think, Roger Pack recently provided at least two versions of Ruby- files, but now I can find only one: * http://github.com/rdp/tk_as_gem Maybe, you can find links to more here: * http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/topics If you want to compile it yourself with mingw: * comp.lang.ruby, 2009-12-18, "Ruby 1.8.7 + Tk8.5 with Windows- RubyInstaller" If you want to compile it with Microsoft compiler (IMHO, this has disadvantages regarding other libraries!): * www.tkdocs.com Axel
From: Roger Pack on 17 Feb 2010 08:17
> I'm not sure about MaxOSX, but for Windows: > > http://wiki.github.com/rdp/ruby_tutorials_core/tk > > The "Availability" section says you just have to install ActiveState's > package and everything will work fine. I've updated the windows section http://wiki.github.com/rdp/ruby_tutorials_core/tk#windows with a bit more verbosity on which version has it preinstalled. -r -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. |