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Trouble building tkinter for Aqua
by Matthew Dixon Cowles Dec. 8, 2023

Dec. 8, 2023

I'm trying to compile Python 3.12.0 from source on a new ARM MacBook. I haven't had any trouble except with the tkinter module. I've built Python from source any number of times before on Linux and macOS, but previously always with X11. (For the moment, I'm just doing an ordinary Unix build, not a Framework build.) I've built Tcl and Tk (with --enable-aqua) and the tests run. (Tk seems unhappy with a few of the window manager tests but they don't seem like a big deal and nothing blows up.) The libraries are in /usr/local/lib: $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libtk8.6.dylib -r-xr-xr-x 1 root staff 1572304 Dec 6 22:50 /usr/local/lib/libtk8.6.dylib $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libtcl8.6.dylib -r-xr-xr-x 1 root staff 1558656 Dec 6 17:58 /usr/local/lib/libtcl8.6.dylib But when I run configure, I get: checking for stdlib extension module _tkinter... missing At the bottom of configure's output, I get: configure: WARNING: pkg-config is missing. Some dependencies may not be detected correctly. So I've tried hand-hacking the Makefile, replacing: MODULE__TKINTER_STATE=missing with: MODULE__TKINTER_STATE=yes MODULE__TKINTER_CFLAGS= MODULE__TKINTER_LDFLAGS=-ltk8.6 -ltcl8.6 But then make gives me: [ERROR] _tkinter (/usr/local/src/Python-3.12.0/build/lib.macosx-14.1-arm64- 3.12/_tkinter.cpython-312-darwin.so) is missing which suggests that the build process didn't try to build that module. Is there some trick that I'm missing? Some additional bit of fiddling I need to do to get the build process to try to build tkinter? Thanks! Regards, Matt

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