From: ajm@... (Andy Moreton)
Date: 2001-08-15T00:50:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19698] Re: Compiling Ruby with cygwin and Tk support

decoux@moulon.inra.fr (ts) wrote in <200108141133.f7EBX1e13892
@moulon.inra.fr>:

>>>>>> "M" == Manuel Zabelt <ng@zabelt.net> writes:
>
>M> I found the ext /directory in the source tree of Ruby.  I edited the
>M> Setup file.
>
> You don't need generally to modify Setup.
>
> If, when you compile ruby, it don't try to compile tcl/tk this is
> generally because it don't find the include files, or the library
>
> When you run configure you can give some extra arguments
>
>  --with-tcl-include  to specify the directory for tcl includes
>  --with-tcl-lib                                   tcl libraries
>  --with-tk-include   to specify the directory for tk includes
>  --with-tk-lib                                    tk library
>
>Guy Decoux

Guy is correct - ruby builds without modifications:

1) Download and unpack ruby-1.6.4.tar.gz
2) Download and install X11 headers from cygwin port of XFree86:
     http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/
3) Build ruby:
    	./configure
    	make
    	make test
    	make install

HTH
    	AndyM
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