Looking for help getting tkinter to work.

[Shue Boks]

I tried to compile Python and Tcl/Tk on Linux using the following
files:

Python-3.1.1.tar.gz
tcl8.5.7-src.tar.gz

Cannot get tkinter to work after compiling & installing Tcl/Tk. I get
the following error after compiling Python:

"Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules
were not found:
_tkinter
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for
the module's name."

Are the above files the correct versions to get tkinter to work?

Thanks.

 

[Francesco Bochicchio]

I tried to compile Python and Tcl/Tk on Linux using the following
files:

Python-3.1.1.tar.gz
tcl8.5.7-src.tar.gz

Cannot get tkinter to work after compiling & installing Tcl/Tk.  I get
the following error after compiling Python:

"Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules
were not found:
_tkinter
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for
the module's name."

Are the above files the correct versions to get tkinter to work?

Thanks.

The version should be ok. I just compiled python3.1 against tcl/tk
8.5, only I used
the tcl/tk development packages coming with my distribution (Ubuntu).
I used
../configure --with-tk, so if you did not, try that first.

Did you run 'make install' during tcl/tk installation _before_ doing ./
configure in python source
directory?

If so, look where the library files ( e.g. libtk8.5.so ) and include
files (e.g tk.h ) have been placed
and check against the places where the function 'detect_tkinter' in
'setup.py' looks for them.

Ciao

 

[Shue Boks]

The version should be ok. I just compiled python3.1 against tcl/tk
8.5, only I used
the tcl/tk development packages coming with my distribution (Ubuntu).
I used
./configure --with-tk, so if you did not, try that first.

Did you run 'make install' during tcl/tk installation _before_ doing ./
configure in python source
directory?

If so, look where the library files ( e.g. libtk8.5.so ) and include
files (e.g tk.h ) have been placed
and check against the places where the function 'detect_tkinter' in
'setup.py' looks for them.

Ciao

Sorry for the late response, I only get a chance to play with this on
the weekends.

I tried everything mentioned above, but nothing seems to work. I did
a "find / " on the two files libtk8.5.so and tk.h, it doesn't appear
anywhere. I am really thinking that tcl8.5.7-src.tar.gz doesn't have
the necessary files I need.

I am using Puppy Linux which I am slowly giving up on. I love Puppy,
but their distribution doesn't come with the tcl/tk development
package that Ubuntu has.