From: Jon Forums <jon.forums@...>
Date: 2012-01-28T01:53:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows RubyInstaller 1.8.7: Installing missing TCL/TK packages?

> (I asked this before via google.groups, but I think this was wrong; so
> again here...)

Our main RubyInstaller ML is
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller


> On a WindowsXP-laptop I've installed RubyInstaller 1.8.7-p357, including
> the integrated TCLTk-installation.  Ruby version is 1.8.7 (2009-06-12
> patchlevel 174) [i386-mingw32].  RubyTk works "out of the box" (thank
> you!), but for using "vu", it seems that I need an additional TCL/TK
> (not Ruby) package.
>
> How can I install this?
>
> ...SNIP...
>
> Background is, that I want to display measured data similar to an
> oscilloscope. Data are coming in via ruby-serialport. On another
> Windows computer where I have an older Ruby installation, which is using
> Active State's TCL/TK, this little application (seems to) works.

This sound interesting.

Our Tcl/Tk (currently v8.5.11) library integration is private to the
RubyInstaller rather than being general purpose. That means the Tcl/Tk
stuff primarily lives in <INSTALL_DIR>/lib/tcltk.

I don't work in Tcl/Tk, but I wonder if a reasonable hack for your
situation would be to embed the "vu" stuff into RubyInstaller's private
Tcl/Tk lib. Also wondering if you can move to 1.9.3 given 1.8.7 is
effectively EOL and all the good work (Windows performance/usability and
otherwise) is happening on 1.9.3 and 2.0.0.

Why don't you post this question to our RubyInstaller ML and see if we
can come up with something creative?

Jon

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