Issue 6441: Tkinter cannot find 64 bit Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X (original) (raw)

Created on 2009-07-08 15:05 by keflavich, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (6)
msg90269 - (view)	Author: Adam Ginsburg (keflavich)	Date: 2009-07-08 15:05
While it is possible to compile 64 bit python on Mac OS X, the default tcl/tk is NOT 64 bit. If you do install a 64 bit version of tcl/tk, python still will not find it - lines 1503-1515 prevent it: if 'x86_64' in archs or 'ppc64' in archs: try: archs.remove('x86_64') except ValueError: pass try: archs.remove('ppc64') except ValueError: pass for a in archs: frameworks.append('-arch') frameworks.append(a) I was able to successfully get 64 bit tkinter working by commenting out these lines as suggested by Ned Deily. Ronald Oussoren suggests: "BTW. The correct fix would be to add a probe to setup.py that detects if Tcl/Tk was build with 64-bit support or not."
msg90270 - (view)	Author: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) *	Date: 2009-07-08 15:17
Adam: where can I download a 64-bit version of Tcl/Tk?
msg90271 - (view)	Author: Adam Ginsburg (keflavich)	Date: 2009-07-08 15:25
Sorry Ronald, I had misinterpreted your last message. Look at these posts: http://buffalothedestroyer.blogspot.com/2009/07/installing-64-bit-tcltk-on-mac-os-x.html http://www.nabble.com/Error-compiling-tk-8.5.7-on-Mac-OS-X-10.5-td23790967.html or try this script: curl -O 'http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/t{cl,k}8.5.7-src.tar.gz' for f in t*8.5.7*.gz; do tar zxf $f; done cd tcl8.5.7/unix/ ./configure --enable-framework --enable-64-bit cd tk8.5.7/unix/ ./configure --enable-framework --enable-64-bit make -j 4 -C tcl8.5.7/unix make -j 4 -C tk8.5.7/unix sudo make install -C tcl8.5.7/unix sudo make install -C tk8.5.7/unix
msg92306 - (view)	Author: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) *	Date: 2009-09-06 12:14
I found an easier way to test with a 64-bit Tcl/Tk: run Snow Leopard ;-)
msg92333 - (view)	Author: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) *	Date: 2009-09-06 21:03
The (untested) attached patch ("setup-tk-archs.patch") updates the code in setup.py to automaticly detect the architectures that are supported by the Tk framework and passes '-arch' flags to the compiler for the intersection of the configured architectures for Python and the architectures supported by Tk.framework.
msg92650 - (view)	Author: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) *	Date: 2009-09-15 19:24
I just commited a fix for this, the patch is present in all 4 active branches (2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2)