Python • Re: compile python from source with tkinter support

have a python project that requires tkinter. I am attempting to compile python from source.

And no matter what I do, I get the following error in the configuration step:
checking for stdlib extension module _tkinter... missing

I have exhausted google and AI searches. All AI queries insist that I must not have installed "tk-dev" or "tcl-dev". I definitely have those installed. I have carefully followed the instructions on here https://docs.python.org/3/using/configu ... quirements.

Well, I reluctanctly installed python 3.14.0 (notice last figure: 0 is considered as A STABLE VERSION ) withot trouble on an external rotating USB disk, withe following histor (it took my old beloved Pi4 Bulls eye 30 minutes) I triend to import tkinter without a glitch (I do not use tkinter, therefore i could not test deeper. Tk dev has been installed for years, and did not mess up things B TW I was reluctant because FC43 has python3.14 and some packages need python 3.12 (3.14 is too new, ecxept for Pi). BTW number 2: I asked three AI the same prompt: All three of them understand (2 of them write) French; qwen3 max (Alibaba; chinese) said yes, but was traines in 2024 -not a reliable answer). Claude Haiku (Omericoin; often excellent) answered me intellectual garbage; Surprisingly, kimi seems to have an interestion answer (though it does not write good french, to be nice and friendly). It was recently released in China and I keep it as it is sometimes good (2 other AI can confirm -or not its solution is interesting). The command "configure --help" is superior to AIs and google search, IMO

Statistics: Posted by dbrion1 — Sun Jan 04, 2026 3:09 pm

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