Installing Tk problems with Active State on Windows

[Ray Smith]

Having migrated to Windows 7 has left me without one of my favorite Perl Modules - Tk When attempting to install Tk under CPAN, I get the following, note we ran out of room to have the complete listing. I appologize, in advanced for the lack of completeness. Initial commands:

cpan
C:\Users\charlers\Desktop>cpan
Set up gcc environment - gcc.exe (gcc-4.6.3 release with patches [buil
+d 20121012
 by perlmingw.sf.net]) 4.6.3

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9456)
Enter 'h' for help.


cpan>
install Tk

... lots of the install process...

C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e "chmod" -- 644 X.bs
C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Mksymlists \
     -e "Mksymlists('NAME'=>\"Tk::X\", 'DLBASE' => 'X', 'DL_FUNCS' => 
+{  }, 'FUN
CLIST' => [], 'IMPORTS' => {  }, 'DL_VARS' => []);"
Set up gcc environment - gcc.exe (gcc-4.6.3 release with patches [buil
+d 20121012
 by perlmingw.sf.net]) 4.6.3
dlltool --def X.def --output-exp dll.exp
C:\STRAWB~1\c\bin\g++.exe -o ..\..\blib\arch\auto\Tk\X\X.dll -Wl,--bas
+e-file -Wl
,dll.base -mdll -L"C:\Perl64\lib\CORE" X.o -Wl,--image-base,0x342e0000
+  C:\Perl6
4\lib\CORE\perl512.lib -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg
+32 -ladvap
i32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwi
+nmm -lvers
ion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32 -lbufferoverflowU -lmsvcrt dll.exp
c:/strawb~1/c/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.6.3/../../../../i686-w
+64-mingw32
/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lbufferoverflowU
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
dmake.exe:  Error code 129, while making '..\..\blib\arch\auto\Tk\X\X.
+dll'
dmake.exe:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'
dmake.exe:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'
  SREZIC/Tk-804.031.tar.gz
  C:\STRAWB~1\c\bin\dmake.exe -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Failed during this command:
 SREZIC/Tk-804.031.tar.gz                     : make NO

[Anonymous Monk]

Tk is available via ppm, sure its 804.30, but thats pretty good :)

[syphilis]

PPM packages for Tk-804.031 (for both 32-bit and 64-bit builds of Win32 perl) have now been added to the sisyphusion repo.

ppm install http://www.sisyphusion.tk/ppm/Tk.ppd --force

The 32-bit builds passed all tests, but the 64-bit builds failed (with segfaults) on 2 of the test programs:

t\create.t                 (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 271 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  270
  Non-zero exit status: 255
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 543 tests but ran 271.

t\zzTixGrid.t              (Wstat: 768 Tests: 33 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 3

(Same result when building with Strawberry Perl.)

Ray Smith, if you want to build Tk yourself for ActivePerl, you can do it with Strawberry Perl - but only if your Strawberry Perl and ActivePerl have the same perl version number and archname (perl -V:archname).
If they match on both counts, then the Tk-804.031 that you build with Strawberry Perl, will work quite well with ActivePerl - though it will probably require that strawberry/c/bin is in your path.

Cheers,
Rob

[Anonymous Monk]

FWIW, that bufferoverflowU stuff appears to be geared to the microsoft compiler and sdk, see Bug #46112 for Tk: Problems compiling on x64 ActivePerl (Win Vista 64)

So you might get microsoft compiler and use that instead of mingw compiler, see How to install CPAN modules into ActivePerl

[bulk88]

Or delete all that bufferoverlowU stuff from Makefile.PL.

[Anonymous Monk]

Or delete all that bufferoverflowU stuff from Makefile.PL.

But there is no bufferoverflowU stuff in Makefile.PL :)