From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2009-06-12T08:17:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems getting Tk running

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Jens Riedel<JensRie@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Ruby 1.8 under Windows (installed with the One-Click-Installer).
> When I try to use Tk I get a message that tk84.dll is not available.
> I googled a bit and found that I have to install ActiveTcl 8.4 and did this.
> Message still occurred, after I copied tk84.dll from Tcl/lib to ruby/lib the
> next error was "tcl84.dll" not found... I copied this, too, and then
> init.tcl was not found...
> I think I'm on the wrong way to copy all the files from Tcl to ruby, how can
> I get Tk running?

Is Tk an absolute necessity? There are certainly better UI libraries
for Ruby on Windows, including Shoes, GTK, and the various JRuby-based
Swing/SWT wrappers.

- Charlie