TKinter in a Virtualenv

Question

Trying to run python code with TKinter-based widgets from a virtualenv.

    user@computer:~/myproject$ env/bin/python Python
    2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012,         


        

Answer 1

clone the cpython project

git clone git@github.com:python/cpython.git

cd to the cpython directory. git checkout the desired version of your virtual env(for me it is 3.4), and build it with

./configure
make
make test
sudo make install

you will find an so file _tkinter.cpython-xxx.so in a subdir of the build/ directory, copy it to your venv's lib-dynload dir. (for me it is ~/tf1.1py3.4/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload/)