From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2010-02-20T03:49:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Where is Ruby 1.9 'TK' library?

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2. Right after the line "/bin/install -c -m 644
>> ./lib/tkextlib/SUPPORT_STATUS
>> c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/tk_as_gem-0.0.1/lib/tkextlib". This
>> is the one that seems to hang for 40 minutes, or however long I let it
>> go on.
>
> Hangs with tk for me have typically historically meant that Tk wasn't
> found (I think, anyway).  that for was 1.8 I've never seen it for 1.9,
> though.

It did find Tk and used it to compile the extension; and things seem
to work afterwards. Maybe part of the reason is that I was using Tk
8.5 instead of 8.4?

>
> Here's a zipped up copy of my binaries (with the gem compiled in there).
> They might not even need the tcl binaries in the path...but probably do
> (8.4 binaries).
>
> http://rubydoc.ruby-forum.com/distro/ruby191p376.tgz

Thanks. I'll try to download 8.4 so I can try it out later.