in reply to Tkx not installing properly

Hi,

I believe the failure is happening in the XSLoader::dl_load_file() call.
If C:/ActiveTcl/bin/tcl86t.dll exists, then I'd be thinking it's not a valid dll.
Perhaps it's a 32-bit dll when a 64-bit dll is required (or vice-versa) ?

It's also worth reading the comments in XSLoader.pm relating to dl_load_file failures: 
# Many dynamic extension loading problems will appear to come from
# this section of code: XYZ failed at line 123 of DynaLoader.pm.
# Often these errors are actually occurring in the initialisation
# C code of the extension XS file. Perl reports the error as being
# in this perl code simply because this was the last perl code
# it executed.

my $libref = dl_load_file($file, 0) or do { 
  require Carp;
  Carp::croak("Can't load '$file' for module $module: " . dl_error());
};

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What's your perl -V output ?

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: Tkx not installing properly
by chrstphrchvz (Scribe) on May 13, 2019 at 04:45 UTC

    The available releases of ActiveTcl 8.6 Community Edition for Windows are all 64-bit, while DWIM Perl for Windows is 32-bit. So I think you're right that this issue is due to a bitness mismatch, and a 64-bit Perl distribution (e.g. Strawberry or ActivePerl) would be needed instead.

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      correct
      BTW I experienced some another problem on Windows 7 with 32bit ActiveTcl, so it took me some effort but then I switched to http://www.bawt.tcl3d.org/download.html#tclbi which then solved all my problems, there are 32 and 64 bit versions, with lots of modules included

      I found this binary while searching in Tclers wiki at http://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/BAWT, which is also recommended resource for seekers of perl/Tk wisdom :)

      Going to write about this to Jeff Hobbs, who should be aware of such problems in ActiveTCL

      regards, Vadim

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