Tk804 on 64bit Linux

monk2b has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have successfully built Tk on linux computers for years. I recently began to get 64 bit Linux desktop system in and the users of these systems require Tk-804.27 for the applications that they develope. I have not been able to get Tk built on a 64 bit system to date.

Does anyone know of a problem with building Tk on a 64 bit Intel pentium 4 system? Are there any obvious gotchas that anyone knows about that I should be aware of? Is there a 64 bit version of the Tk module?

I would appreciate any help that I get.

I got 99 problems, but coding ain't one.

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Re: Tk804 on 64bit Linux by jfroebe (Parson) on Jan 15, 2006 at 04:04 UTC
Hi Monk2b, You're really asking the wrong crowd for building TK. You're best bet is to go to the TCL Developer Site and/or to the website of your Linux distribution. Unless you're talking about the Perl/TK module?? hope this helps :) Jason L. Froebe Team Sybase member No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1	[reply]
Re: Tk804 on 64bit Linux by zentara (Archbishop) on Jan 15, 2006 at 12:42 UTC
It would help if you gave the error messages you are getting. Also going to http://groups.google.com and searching for "Perl Tk 64 bit compiling" gives some results from recent discussions on the newsgroup comp.lang.perl.tk about 64 bit on different platforms. You also can get a 64 bit linux distribution which comes with pre-built Tk binaries, and get their source rpms, and see what patches they've applied to the Tk source, and the compilers. OpenSuSE usually does a good job of making sure everything works. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re: Tk804 on 64bit Linux by monk2b (Pilgrim) on Jan 27, 2006 at 03:24 UTC
Thanks Folks. I got 99 problems, but coding ain't one.	[reply]


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