Problem in making tk work with ruby 1.8.1

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i installed ruby-1.8.1 on edura and ruby works
individually tclsh and wish is also working
but when tried to use tk in ruby got the response as given below

[root@localhost ruby-1.8.1]# ruby
require ‘tk’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tk.rb:7:in require': No such file to load -- tcltklib (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tk.rb:7 from -:1:inrequire’
from -:1

can any one knowledgeable help me
thank you
elangovan nambi

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i installed ruby-1.8.1 on edura and ruby works
individually tclsh and wish is also working
but when tried to use tk in ruby got the response as given below

[root@localhost ruby-1.8.1]# ruby
require ‘tk’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tk.rb:7:in require': No such file to load -- tcltklib (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tk.rb:7 from -:1:in require’
from -:1

can any one knowledgeable help me
thank you
elangovan nambi

when you built ruby it did not find the tk/tcl headers or libraries. you need
to tell the ./configure script where these are (and possibly the version) when
you compile ruby OR you can compile the extenstion afterwards by setting some
variables for the makefile.

see

ruby-1.8.1/ext/tcltklib/README.1st

for step by step instructions.

-a

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