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

When I try to compile my perl program (which utilizes the Perl/Tk GUI package) with perlcc I get the following message:

Note (probably harmless)no library found for 'oldnames.lib'

And this repeats for about twenty lines naming a bunch of *.lib files and then states 'the name specified is not recognized as an internal or external command, program, batch file.

If I just type perlcc, however, I do get the help if, so it's not a PATH problem.

I'm currently working off of my work machine (Windows NT 4 Service Pack 6) with ActiveState's Perl (perl version 5.6) and Tk 8.

Please e-mail me any helpful information.

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: perlcc & Tk
by blakem (Monsignor) on Oct 01, 2001 at 21:26 UTC
    While I think ESR is a bit high and mighty sometimes, I think this exerpt from his guide to asking smart questions is spot on:

      Don't ask people to reply by private email
      Hackers believe solving problems should be a public, transparent process during which a first try at an answer can and should be corrected if someone more knowledgeable notices that it is incomplete or incorrect. Also, they get some of their reward for being respondents from being seen to be competent and knowledgeable by their peers.

      When you ask for a private reply, you are disrupting both the process and the reward. Don't do this. It's the respondent's choice whether to reply privately — and if he does, it's usually because he thinks the question is too ill-formed or obvious to be interesting to others.

      There is one limited exception to this rule. If you think the question is such that you are likely to get a lot of answers that are all pretty similar, then the magic words are "email me and I'll summarize the answers for the group". It is courteous to try and save the mailing list or newsgroup a flood of substantially identical postings — but you have to keep the promise to summarize.

    -Blake

Don't stay anonymous when expecting an answer
by C-Keen (Monk) on Oct 01, 2001 at 19:52 UTC
    How should we contact you since you prefer to stay anonymous?

    C-Keen

    Update: Try a perldoc perlcc which will tell you to use the -L parameter to explicitly name a path to your librabries. This seems to be related to Tk and not perl

Re: perlcc & Tk
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 01, 2001 at 19:51 UTC
    Since I didn't leave my information in the earlier post here it is:

    You can e-mail me at never13@prodigy.net if have any information pertaining to my problem.

    Michael