Monday, January 9, 2012

Easy way to install TK on Strawberry PERL ON WINDOWS!!

Thanks to the reply to the post by Felipe (http://erez.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/strawberry-perl-forever/), here are the steps:
  1. Download Tk module from cpan (http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk-804.030/) 
  2. Extract it to a folder. 
  3. Move it to C:\strawberry\perl\lib\ 
  4. Open Command Prompt 
  5. Go to cd C:\strawberry\perl\lib\foldername and pressed enter. 
  6. Then type: perl makefile.pl and pressed enter.. Wait for a few minutes till you see the command prompt. 
  7. Then type dmake test and press Enter. 
  8. Then type dmake install and press Enter.

11 comments:

  1. Thank you! It's really helpful!

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  2. Wow, thank you so much. Regular CPAN> intall Tk was not working for me. For those n00bs like me, when you download the package from CPAN, it's a tar.gz. You can extract the tar from the gunzip with 7zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) and then extract the files from the tar with the same program.

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  3. Thank you...just what I was looking for. I am using Padre, but your instructions worked fine for it as well.

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  4. Thank you so much....
    Instructions mentioned here is got worked..
    :-)

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  5. Hi i'm new to perl... Dont no how to download tk modules from CPAN.. PLease help me out with this..

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    1. You click the download link up top of the page. (use the link provided above) or here http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk-804.030/, what I'm trying to figure out is how to "extract" a gz file in windows.

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    2. Use 7zip to extract tar and gz files on Windows:
      http://www.7-zip.org/

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  6. i'm getting this error

    Can't locate Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /opt

    pls, hlp on ts

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  7. after I gave dmake test command it is giving this error
    fatal error: ../pTk/tkIntXlibDecls.h: No such file or directory
    compilation terminated.
    dmake: Error code 129, while making 'Xlib.o'
    dmake: Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'


    Can anyone help me out with this.

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    1. You should use gmake instead of dmake

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    2. gmake: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

      I got this message what is the solution...

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