Re: Tk in Strawberry on W10

Though I've never used Tk, I stumbled upon a few references you might find useful:

The Strawberry Perl docs recommend perl v5.38.2.2 (not your perl v5.38.0)
AFAICT, no version of Strawberry Perl comes with Tk bundled, you have to install it yourself from CPAN ... so it'd be good if you described how you did that and to post any test failures you experienced while installing Tk from CPAN
Re: Unable to install Tk module for Strawberry Perl by KeighleHawk (Jan 20, 2024) - see especially this reply from syphilis, which describes a fix to the Tk C code in pTk/mTk/xlib/X11/X.h

Update: You shouldn't be using perl v5.38.0 because it contains a security vulnerability, described at THREE new perl releases.

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Re^2: Tk in Strawberry on W10 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Mar 31, 2024 at 06:39 UTC
see especially this reply from syphilis, which describes a fix to the Tk C code in pTk/mTk/xlib/X11/X.h Thanks for locating that eyepopslikeamosquito - I think it's fucking deplorable that we still have to keep digging up this old stuff. (And I don't even use Tk.) The github repo (at least) should have been fixed by now, IMFO. Unfortunately, it's still broken. If I clone the current Tk version from github into Tk-20240331 (`$ git clone https://github.com/eserte/perl-tk Tk-20240331`), I still have to apply 2 fixes to that source. Firstly, I have to apply the patch at https://github.com/chrstphrchvz/perl-tk/commit/0cc1fd7c599fc6b7050fcd7442f10824b032c462. Then, in that very same X.h file that I've just patched, I need to replace the one occurrence of `typedef unsigned long XID` with `typedef unsigned long long XID` (at line 46). I made all of those changes by hand (cut'n'paste) - it's not such a big deal. That done, in Strawberry-5.38.2 I can just cd to that Tk-20240331 source directory and run "cpan .". (Ignore the error messages that are generated at the start - they're just in response to the configure probing that's being done.) The big deal is having to continually dig up these solutions because no-one can be bothered actually fixing the github source. (Of course, it's actually a new release of Tk that's needed.) Update: The above patch that replaces "long" with "long long" works fine on Windows, but the revised X.h would really be better rewritten as: `$ diff -u X.h X.h_preferred --- X.h 2024-03-31 17:24:19.640385400 +1100 +++ X.h_preferred 2024-03-31 20:33:02.097334700 +1100 @@ -40,10 +40,8 @@ /* Resources / -#if defined(_WIN64) && defined(_MSC_VER) +#if defined(_WIN64) typedef __int64 XID; -#else -typedef unsigned long long XID; #endif` [download] `$ diff -u X.h X.h_preferred --- X.h 2024-03-31 17:24:19.640385400 +1100 +++ X.h_preferred 2024-04-01 10:05:59.718400900 +1100 @@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ / Resources */ -#if defined(_WIN64) && defined(_MSC_VER) +#if defined(_WIN64) typedef __int64 XID; #else -typedef unsigned long long XID; +typedef unsigned long XID; #endif typedef XID Window;` [download] Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Tk in Strawberry on W10 by etj (Priest) on Apr 06, 2024 at 14:04 UTC
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/eserte/perl-tk/builds/48445961, the AppVeyor build on the most recent commit, shows it building OK on Strawberry Perl? Is the problem you're describing captured in one of the open issues on there? When I asked Slaven for co-maint and a commit bit in the past (for GraphViz::Makefile), he was very receptive.	[reply]
Re^4: Tk in Strawberry on W10 by choroba (Cardinal) on Apr 06, 2024 at 14:12 UTC
The page says "github workflow for FreeBSD". Is it really Strawberry? `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Tk in Strawberry on W10 by etj (Priest) on Apr 06, 2024 at 14:14 UTC
Re^6: Tk in Strawberry on W10 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Apr 07, 2024 at 00:50 UTC
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