Building ruby/tcltk on Mac OSX

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Building the TclTk extension on Max OS X (10.2.3)

  1. Additions to ‘extconf.rb’ (justs bypasses all the config stuff)

5,15d4
< if /darwin/ =~ RUBY_PLATFORM
< stubs = enable_config(“tcltk_stubs”) || with_config(“tcltk_stubs”)
< $CPPFLAGS += ’ -DUSE_TCL_STUBS -DUSE_TK_STUBS’ if stubs
< $CPPFLAGS += ’ -DMAC_OSX_TCL -DMAC_OSX_TK’
< $CPPFLAGS += ’ -I/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Headers’
< $CPPFLAGS += ’ -I/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Headers’
< $LDFLAGS += ’ -framework Tcl -framework Tk’
< create_makefile(“tcltklib”)
< exit
< end

  1. Added ‘#include <sys/time.h>’ to ‘tcltklib.c’
    (for the definition of ‘struct timeval’)

  2. Added ‘(const char **)’ before ‘av’ on line 812,
    (to avoid an incompatible-type warning)

    TRAP_BEG;
    ptr->return_value = (*info.proc)(info.clientData, ptr->ip,
    argc, (const char **)av);
    TRAP_END;

It builds OK.
The demos draw their windows, but the windows never activate.
Clicking on a window gives an message:

    SetFrontProcess failed,-606

which is some stupid Apple message.
You have to go to another shell to find the PID to kill it.
Any clues?