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Can't add tkinter because of missing libx11-dev package #19
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Every time I'm trying to build python with all modules it failing on tkinter.
Main reason is missing libx11-dev package but even if I install libx11-dev package it's still failing because of "1 problematic" issue with tkinter.
INFO Symlink build/cpython-3.9.12/ppp-marker/3.9.12/lib/python3.9/config-3.9-x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.9.a <- build/cpython-3.9.12/ppp-marker/3.9.12/lib/libpython3.9.a
prefix build/cpython-3.9.12/ppp-marker/3.9.12
_bz2 _bz2*.so
_ctypes 1.1.0 _ctypes*.so
_curses 2.2 _curses*.so
_dbm _dbm*.so
_decimal 1.70 _decimal*.so
_gdbm 1.23.0 _gdbm*.so
_lzma _lzma*.so
_sqlite3 3.42.0 _sqlite3*.so
_ssl OpenSSL 1.1.1u 30 May 2023 _ssl*.so
_tkinter *absent* None
_uuid _uuid*.so
pip 23.1.2 lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip
pyexpat 2.4.7 pyexpat*.so
readline 8.2 readline*.so
setuptools *absent* build/cpython-3.9.12/ppp-marker/3.9.12/lib/python3.9/distutils/core.py
zlib 1.2.13 zlib*.so
libpython*.a 54 MB lib/libpython3.9.a lib/python3.9/config-3.9-x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.9.a
libpython*.so -not used-
install size 123 MB
ERROR Build failed:
-- 1 problematic
_tkinter*_failed.so
INFO Compiling cpython took 3 minutes 32 seconds
INFO Overall compilation took 5 minutes 5 secondsUsed command:
portable-python -c portable-python.yml build 3.9.12 -m libffi,zlib,xz,bzip2,readline,openssl,sqlite,bdb,gdbm,uuid,tkinter
Tested in docker with and without installed libx11-dev packages.
Build without libx11-dev:
13-tk.log
Build with installed libx11-dev:
13-tk.log
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zsimic commentedon Jul 5, 2023
I would love to find a way to make tkinter compile as well, it is tricky indeed to successfully compile it.
In the logs you attached, without libx11-dev, tk C compilation indeed fails with:
The logs with tk show that tk indeed compiled correctly, however, something later didn't work, in the
NN-cpython.logfile8tm commentedon Jul 5, 2023
My log from cpython:
15-cpython.log
Maybe this will help a little:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2005-January/000307.html
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2005-January/000308.html
https://github.com/biosbits/python/blob/bits/setup.py#L1930C32-L1930C32