From: saLOUt <saloution@...>
Date: 2010-02-19T23:30:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Tk on Windows and Mac OS X 10.6

On 19 Feb., 10:48, mdiam <maurice.diamant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 18, 11:56 pm, Hidetoshi NAGAI <na...@ai.kyutech.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> > > > I think that a monolithic tcltklib.so library is one of the solutions
> > > > to avoid such kind of troubles.
> > > > ...
>
> > Probably, not easy. But it will not so difficult as you think.
> > By using Tclkit and some experiments, I've already succeeded to make
> > a tcltklib.so merged a Tcl/Tk environment and create a TclTkIp object
> > with Tk (of course, the version of Tcl/Tk is the one of the merged) on
> > Ruby with the tcltklib.so.
>
> Great, if it is possible, it would be *the* definitive solution for Tk
> with Ruby.
>
> If you have a recipe on how to build this full Ruby/Tk distrib from
> sources, I could test it on Macosx and some linux.
> These source would be :
> - ruby-1.9xxx
> - tcltk-8.5xxx or tcltk-8.6xxx
>
> My idea would be to create a stand alone ruby sumo distrib (rubylab ?)
> with  Ruby + Tk + Qt + FFI + some science selected extensions.
> (This would be the last alternative before switching from Ruby to
> Pihton :-( )
>
> But as I'm not very clever in compilation, this will take some
> time...
>
> Cordialement,
> -- Maurice

Didn't read everything. Just want to mention that there will be a Qt-
Ruby-Gem for Windows release very soon. For Linux there should be pre-
build packages available for most common distributions.

First adress for ruby + Qt/KDE: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-bindings

Robert