It looks to me like you're declaring main after you use it. Since you're not doing &main, and main isn't defined yet, Perl might be stringifying it, thus generating the error you see.

Try using an &, or declare main before you use it.

Update: After verifying that what I was saying above didn't make 100% sense (as I tested what you were doing with my own arbitrarily named functions and it worked), I've been looking at the source for the Tk stuff for a while and have been unable to locate where this function is even defined! The only reference to it is in TkXSUBS.def, but it's commented out in the source I downloaded. I can't find any reference to Tk::exit or 'exit' in an .xs file anywhere. Goofy, but I don't claim to be an XS expert.

Just use Tk (); or explicitely name what you want exported. That should leave Tk::exit in Tk's namespace.

In reply to Re: Tk: exit main(@ARGV); fails by Fastolfe
in thread Tk: exit main(@ARGV); fails by tye

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