Installing Tk on Strawberry

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

I am trying to install Tk on Strawberry perl. I've done it in the past without problem, but I am failing now. I tried with Strawberry Perl 5.26 (portable): failed. I installed with berrybrew Perl 5.16: failed. The installation starts, I see all sort of GUI widget displayed, but at the end I always get the following message:

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t\after.t                  (Wstat: 0 Tests: 6 Failed: 0)
  TODO passed:   1-6
t\listbox.t                (Wstat: 256 Tests: 537 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  407
  TODO passed:   320-322, 328
  Non-zero exit status: 1
t\text.t                   (Wstat: 0 Tests: 415 Failed: 0)
  TODO passed:   121
t\wm-tcl.t                 (Wstat: 256 Tests: 315 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  86
  TODO passed:   68
  Non-zero exit status: 1
t\zzScrolled.t             (Wstat: 0 Tests: 94 Failed: 0)
  TODO passed:   52, 66, 80, 94
Files=75, Tests=4584, 65 wallclock secs ( 1.02 usr +  0.58 sys =  1.59
+ CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 2/75 test programs. 2/4584 subtests failed.
gmake: *** [Makefile:1446: test_dynamic] Error 255
  SREZIC/Tk-804.033.tar.gz
  C:\Perl526\c\bin\gmake.exe test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, t
+ry:
  reports SREZIC/Tk-804.033.tar.gz
Stopping: 'install' failed for 'Tk'.
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Any suggestion?

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Re: Installing Tk on Strawberry by beech (Parson) on Aug 14, 2017 at 00:02 UTC
Hi, This is a known issue to the module author, so Go ahead and force install the module( `force install Tk`) or install without testing since you already tested ( `notest install Tk`)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Installing Tk on Strawberry by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 14, 2017 at 00:08 UTC
The installation starts, I see all sort of GUI widget displayed ... That's just the tests running. Failed 2/75 test programs. 2/4584 subtests failed. No such problem for me on Windows 7, Strawberry 5.26.0. What version of Windows are you running, and what does `perl -v` output for you ? I think you could go ahead and install the module, anyway. Just force the installation ( `cpan -fi Tk` ) or cd to the directory in which Tk was built and run `gmake install` It would, of course, be good to also get some understanding of what's going wrong here. I couldn't quickly spot any bug reports at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Tk that seemed relevant to the 2 failures you're seeing. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Installing Tk on Strawberry by beech (Parson) on Aug 14, 2017 at 00:20 UTC
Hi, Looks like position/geometry related, weird to fail, but not a big deal listbox.t#L1553 `t\list.t ..................... ok # Failed test at t\listbox.t line 1553. # '25x10+0+0' # doesn't match '(?^:20x10\+\d+\+\d+)' # Looks like you failed 1 test of 537. t\listbox.t .................. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100) Failed 1/537 subtests (less 81 skipped subtests: 455 okay) (4 TODO tests unexpectedly succeeded)` [download] wm-tcl.t#L779 `# Failed test 'wm geometry, setting and getting values' # at t\wm-tcl.t line 779. # got: '182x150+50+50' # expected: '150x150+50+50' # Looks like you failed 1 test of 315. t\wm-tcl.t ................... Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100) Failed 1/315 subtests (less 45 skipped subtests: 269 okay) (1 TODO test unexpectedly succeeded)` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]