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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Building tkinter on Windows
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 03:43:16 -0400
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On 9/9/2013 1:14 AM, Westley Mart=C3=ADnez wrote:
> Hello.  Can anyone tell me how to build tkinter on Windows?  I've downl=
oaded the source, ran Tools/buildbot/external.bat to build the external d=
ependencies.  I copied tcl85g.dll and tk85g.dll to PCBuild.  I built the =
Visual Studio solution.  Everything built fine without errors.  Everythin=
g seems to work except tkinter.  It says:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>    File "...\cpython-idle\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 36, in <module=
>
>      from tkinter import _fix
>    File "...\cpython-idle\lib\tkinter\_fix.py", line 65, in <module>
>      import _tkinter
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
>
> I'm thinking I didn't put the DLLs in the right place, but I don't have=
 any idea where to put them and Google isn't helping.

Some combination of the README instructions, external.bat, and the=20
project files are not correct. There may be an issue on the tracker. I=20
believe I copied tcl85g.dll and tk85g.dll into .../py3x/pcbuild from=20
=2E../tcltk/bin and that resolved the problem for me. But you say you did=
=20
that. Did _tkinter_d.pyd get built (in pcbuild)?


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Terry Jan Reedy