From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-10-15T23:05:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Mac OS X Tiger comes with Tk?

On 10/15/07, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> This thread got me looking into my (rather new) macbooks ruby installation.
>
> I installed ruby using macports right after getting the machine.  I
> don't even have tk.rb to require.
>
> Looking around at macports, it seems that there are TWO port variants
> for the ruby port related to tk
> one is called just tk, the other mactk.
>
> I'm not sure but I suspect that the tk variant requires X11, and that
> the mactk variant doesn't.
>
> I'm still very much an OSX newbie, my last Mac was a ppc which
> couldn't run anything past OS 8.something, and I've been using Linux
> for some time.  I'm not clear yet on what's the best way to try to
> rebuild ruby using port to add the mactk variant. Do I need to
> uninstall and reinstall or is there a better way?

Just to follow up, I did this:

$port deactivate ruby
$port install ruby +mactk

This made my current ruby install inactive, then installed a new
version with the mactk option.

The pickaxe Tk hello world application runs and it is using native OSX widgets.

A variation on this is probably the trick to get around the X11 dependency.

-- 
Rick DeNatale

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