# Re: About Tcl/Tk

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-about-tcl-tk/94904>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 10, 2006, 9:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-about-tcl-tk/94904 "2006-01-10T09:02:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![piet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@piet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/piet)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 9:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-about-tcl-tk/94904/1 "2006-01-10T09:02:36Z")

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> -----Original Message-----  
> From: tony summerfelt [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)]
> 
> just out of curiosity did you try fxruby with rubyscript2exe?
> 
> after playing around with gtk a bit, the only hanging point  
> seem to be easy deployment

No, I didn’t. But I’m pretty sure you’ll still have to install the fox  
gui  
library separately.

Piet.

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**Author:** ![piet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@piet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/piet)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-about-tcl-tk/94904/2 "2006-01-11T17:07:36Z")

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Piet H. wrote:

> No, I didn’t. But I’m pretty sure you’ll still have to install the fox gui  
> library separately.
> 
> Piet.

FOX and fxruby seem to have binary distributions for Windows, which  
means just bundling the DLLs along with the exe Should Work ™. Which,  
despite my religious issues with syntethic widget toolkits, is a very  
nice feature.

David V.