From: MENON Jean-Francois <jean-francois.menon@...>
Date: 2003-04-10T00:20:00+09:00
Subject: Re: making module 'tk' work on mac os x

digibren wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I'm trying to use the tk module with tcl and tk I've compiled against
> X11 on mac os x.
> everything compiles fine and I can do require 'tcltk'  succesfully but
> I get an error with
> require 'tk' :
> 
> irb(main):001:0> require 'tk'
> RuntimeError: version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.3, need 8.4
>          from /supp/lib/ruby/1.6/tk.rb:474:in `new'
>          from /supp/lib/ruby/1.6/tk.rb:474
>          from (irb):1:in `require'
>          from (irb):1
> 
> my configure line was:
> CFLAGS='-g -O2 -fno-common -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> -I/supp/include -L/supp/lib' ./configure --prefix=/supp
> --exec-prefix=/supp --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include
> --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --enable-shared
> 
> where /supp has my versions of tcl and tk
> 
> I even tried using --with-tcl-include etc as per an archived post but
> same results.
> 
> I'm assuming somehow the compile is using the system default tcl that
> apple shipped to /usr/lib and friends which is 8.3 instead of the one
> in /supp which is 8.4
> 
> any thoughts on how to avoid that without just deleting apple's tcl?
> 
> Brennan

Just a question: can ruby be linked directly with the apple's tcl ?

I don't have a Mac myself, but if you can give a ruby package working
with tk under macOsX,
I would greatly appreciate :->

jf


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