Tk and huge executables

Dianne Hackborn (hackbod@monitor.CS.ORST.EDU)
6 Feb 1995 22:53:42 GMT

A bit of a newbie question --

When installing Python, I compiled it with tkinter. It didn't want to
compile as a shared library, so I included it into the executable -- and
thus also had to include the whole Tk library, which is about 5 megs on
this system. Is this normal? Is there any way to keep Tk from bloating
out the exectuble like that? This is on an HP-UX v9 system.

Thanks for any help. :)

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