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Reply-to: bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: Preferred GUI Toolkit for O'Caml 3? 
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:41:24 +1100.
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From: "Benjamin C. Pierce" <bcpierce@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
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> >    * seamless portability (Unix and Win32)
> >    * ability to build statically linked binaries (this is a pretty
> >      big drawback to the Tk-based solutions)
> 
> 	I do not understand the latter comment. Tk can be statically
> linked, or dynamically linked, or even dynamically loaded as a tcl
> package. GTK can also be statically or dynamically linked.

I've been told that statically linking Tk applications is not
possible.  If you can tell me how to do it (ideally on both Unix and
Windows) I'd be delighted to know: this is one of our biggest problems
with distributing Unison at the moment.

      B