From: yvj57b5001@...
Date: 2002-09-25T23:48:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Using tcltk with cygwin Ruby

Hi Eban,
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction on how to get cygwin ruby
to work with tcl/tk.  Just for the benefit of the anyone else interested, in
addition, I had to perform the following:

1) Installed tcl/tk 8.3.4.  The cygwin installation only installs tcl/tk 8.0
which doesn't work.

2) When setting the RUBY_T*_DLL environment variables, they need to be in
the windows style path.  That is,

bash> export RUBY_TCL_DLL=`cygpath -w /usr/local/tcl8.3/bin/tcl83.dll`
bash> export RUBY_TK_DLL=`cygpath -w /usr/local/tcl8.3/bin/tk83.dll`

3) If you don't want to set the RUBY_T*_DLL environment variables, then
setting PATH to where the DLLs are also works.

bash> export PATH=/usr/local/tcl8.3/bin:$PATH

Forgive me if I am just pointing out the obvious.

Thanks again,
Chee