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Need help with Perl/Tk
- From: "Michael Kairys" <kairys at comcast dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:26:32 -0500
- Subject: Need help with Perl/Tk
There seems to be something broken in my Perl installation re. Tk, or
perhaps I'm missing something, or just ignorant. If I run a script
containing (only) "use Tk" I get:
Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' for module
Tk:
No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/DynaLoader.pm line
230.
However /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll is in fact
there:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 michael None 803328 Jan 12 2006
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll
cygcheck seems to think everything is okay:
Package Version Status
perl 5.8.8-4 OK
perl-ExtUtils-Depends 0.205-1 OK
perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig 1.07-1 OK
perl-Image-Magick 6.3.0.1-2 OK
perl-libwin32 0.27-1 OK
perl-Locale-gettext 1.05-2 OK
perl-Tk 804.027-4 OK
perl-Win32-GUI 1.05-1 OK
perl_manpages 5.8.8-4 OK
I asked about this in another thread and received this answer:
As I said I don't know exactly why your Tk isn't working. I do know that
Tk under Cygwin assumes a running X server. I rarely run an X server - I
simply use rxvt instead - so I don't like that requirement. I also work
with IBM/Rational products and often need to run ccperl or cqperl - both
of which are AS based. And they have Tk in there that works straight on
Windows (like rxvt does if it senses there is no X server running - I wish
Cygwin's Perl::Tk would do that!).
However when I asked in that thread "Is it correct that Cygwin Perl/Tk
requires a running X server?" I got:
That is one of the stranger assertions to pass by here in a while.
... so I don't quite know what to make of it all. I'm asking for help with
this problem, and where to go for Perl/Tk advice in general.
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