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

How times change.... A few years ago, I would be asking how do I get this to work on linux. Now I can't figure out how to do things on windows...it all just seems so hard. :-)

Anyways, I wanted to see if the windows version of Tk::Zinc would run on the new ActiveStatePerl mentioned ActiveState Perl 5.8.6 Build 811 now available. So I'm using WindowsMe, and the Tk-Zinc installer, says it won't install on Windows 98/Me. The new ActivePerl installed fine. So does anyone know what the problem is? Is the Zinc installer, requiring a later Windows Version, or has anyone compiled the Tk::Zinc module from source, so it would run on older Windows?

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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Re: Running Tk::Zinc on Windows
by Courage (Parson) on Dec 19, 2004 at 19:36 UTC
    theese MSI and CAB (inside MSI) could be unpacked.

    I succeeded unpacking but now archive does not contains subdirectories.

    However copying to proper places should work... e.g. Zinc.dll should go to ...../site/lib/auto/Tk/Zinc/

    Get it from http://www.vkonovalov.ru/unicode/ file http://www.vkonovalov.ru/unicode/tkzinc-perl.zip

    I removed *.pdb file from archive, as it is not needed and just wastes space. Let me know if you still need it.

    BTW Windows-ME now has no support (MS officially refused it)
    Perl developers now do not support it, as README's now say.
    It is easier to switch to Windows 2000

    update s/pdf/pdb/ as it was some debug file not PDF file

    Best regards,
    Courage, the Cowardly Dog

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      Thanks! Now that I know that MSI files can be extracted with "cabextract" I can play with it.
      I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
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        In this case I beleive you need to install installer (instmsi.exe) so your system will be able to deal with MSI files from now on....
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