Re: Tcl / Tk on Windows

On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

You definitely do not want to install Tcl/Tk via Cygwin.  That gives
you a weird hybrid that depends on Cygwin, which your target system
won't have, and only works with an Xserver for Tk.

I develope on FreeBSD, and the only windows target would need to
have Cygwin/X on its windows machine.

Cygwin is a great environment for a Unix developer to be productive
and comfortable on Windows, so edit your files with vi on Cygwin, ...

Indeed, with Cygwin I know how to run a program, how to pass arguments
to it, how to read and write files, how they are named and how to
put them in directory hierarchies, etc. ... :)
I do not need to wrap all files in one file, but to deal with
tcl / tk / sqlite3 in a similar way than in Unix.

but use a true Windows version of Tcl/Tk to actually distribute
anything...

Yes, a true Windows version of Tcl/Tk, namely like under Unix! :)
Rod.