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I've built according to your instructions (slightly
adjusted), then copied tix8184.dll to the DLLs directory (of
a Python 2.3.3, installed with the windows installer), and
the tix8.1 directory into the tcl directory (sibling of
tcl8.4, tk8.4 and so on).

Demo\tixwidgets.py complains:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\sf\python\dist23\src\Demo\tix\tixwidgets.py",
line 1002, in ?
    root = Tix.Tk()
  File "C:\Python23\lib\lib-tk\Tix.py", line 210, in __init__
    self.tk.eval('package require Tix')
_tkinter.TclError: couldn't load library "tix8184.dll": this
library or a dependent library could not be found in library
path

Any advise?