Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
You closed prematurely. After _tkinter is built according to instructions,
there is still the location mismatch bug, previously discussed, that causes
'import _tkinter' to fail with this somewhat misleading message "ImportError:
DLL load failed: The specified
New submission from Terry J. Reedy:
Hg started crashing trying to update my 3.4 shared repository on Windows 10, so
I deleted, rebuilt, and updated. Ran get_externals.bat, then pcbuild.sln. The
one failure is _tkinter, which means no tkinter, no IDLE.
12>..\Modules\_tkinter.c(55): fatal
Zachary Ware added the comment:
3.4 still requires Tcl/Tk to be built outside of VS, and its too late in the
3.4 release cycle to think about changing it. PCbuild\build.bat has been
updated to do the Tcl/Tk build, though; run "PCbuild\build.bat -e -d" (remove
'-d' for a Release build) once,
