Re: Installing Tk problems with Active State on Windows

[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 :)

[syphilis]

But there is no bufferoverflowU stuff in Makefile.PL

Correct. It's to be found in perl/lib/Config_heavy.pl - so remove all (2, I think) occurrences of bufferoverflowU.lib from that file to fix that problem.

But, unlike 32-bit ActivePerl and 32-bit MinGW, 64-bit ActivePerl won't work with 64-bit MinGW straight out of the box. (ExtUtils::FakeConfig needs to be installed.)

Cheers,
Rob