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How to use gitk with msys2?

I am using MSYS2 in Windows 10. git works fine, however gitk gives the error:

/usr/bin/gitk: line 3: exec: wish: not found

Some googling suggested this may be because TK is not installed, however I tried:

pacman -S tk

which gave the error:

error: target not found: tk

How do I get gitk to work in this environment?

Solution

  • Try running the 64-bit MinGW shell (one of the three environments provided by MSYS2), installing the package mingw-w64-x86_64-tk, and then running gitk.

    Gitk works on my system, and wish is provided /mingw64/bin/wish.exe.