Tk::Zinc - another Canvas which proposes many new functions, some based on openGL Tk::Zinc for Perl/Tk is available for Linux, Windows and MacOSX. the easiest way could be to use he CPAN. However new releases are usually first available on www.tkzinc.org/ * On a Linux system, you need Perl (>= 5.6) and perl-tk (800 or 804) packages. * On MacOSX you need: - fink with tk-pm package and its dependencies (http://fink.sf.net) - X11 et X11 sdk from Apple (http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/) * On WinXP you need: - perl and perl-tk 804, - Visual C++ or the Free Visual C++ Command Line Tools Install: perl Makefile.PL make make test # to run demos before installing: perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib demos/zinc-demos make install WATCH OUT! On Linux it is quite frequent to have both Mesa and proprietary openGL libraries installed. This may lead to big problems at runtime if the linker picks the wrong library. It is often the the case between the static (libGL.a) Mesa library and the dynamic (libGL.so) NVidia library. It is very important to assert that the link is done with the library matching the openGL driver loaded in the X server. up-to-date documentation is also available at http://www.tkzinc.org/index.php/Main/Documentation You will find there the reference manual, a FAQ, a mailing list, its archive etc... The source of the reference manual is available in the full source package, which also includes TkZinc for Tcl/Tk, for Perl/Tk, and for Python (Python binding are now obsoletes). After installation, we recommend you to launch the zinc-demos script, a frontend to more than 30 small demos. For more information on building Tk::Zinc, a README is available in the tkzinc-*tgz tar file (on Tkzinc web site) used for building all flavor of TkZinc (ie tcl, perl and python) This software is delivered under LGPL licence. For the copyright, please, read the COPYRIGHT file. For any question on Tk::Zinc usage, build or installation pb, please send email to zinc@tls.cena.fr This mailing list can be subscribed from http://www.tkzinc.org/index.php/Main/MailingList. You can also send a question without subscribing, but you will be asked for a confirmation to avoid spam on the list! Authors and Contributors: Tk::Zinc main author is Patrick Lecoanet Sub-Modules, demos and documentation have been developped by Daniel Etienne, Christophe Mertz, Jean-Luc Vinot, with contributions from Stéphane Chatty, Céline Schlienger, Alexandre Lemort Stéphane Conversy contributed for the MacOSX port. Many others contributed with their bug reports!