Compiled Perl/Tk problem

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

I've just started playing with Perl/Tk and it seems useful and fairly straightforward. My immediate purpose is an IPTC caption editor that ultimately will be used by 300+ people on Windoze 2K/XP workstations, so the app has to be compiled (or I could install Perl and Tk on 300+ workstations -- yuckamundo). When run as a script from the command line, e.g., "perl TkScript.pl," everything is quite spiffy. But when I compile the code and run the resultant executable, the display is mostly foobar'ed -- text characters show up as boxes and the widths in Entry and Text widgets are all wrong. Anyone out there had a similar experience? Better yet, anyone out there gotten compiled Perl/Tk to work on a Win32 platform? I work primarily with Active State Visual Perl 1.8.1 in Microlimp Visual Studio 2003; the compiler is part of ActiveState's Perl Dev Kit 5.2; Tk is current. My Perl is Active State 5.8.8 build 819. Thanks in advance for any enlightenment.

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Re: Compiled Perl/Tk problem by zentara (Cardinal) on May 18, 2007 at 19:58 UTC
I don't use Windows, but this has been asked before. See the comment about using Unicode::Encode in Tk executable on non-perl machine. You need to add it as the first module. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum	[reply]
Re^2: Compiled Perl/Tk problem by estrom (Initiate) on May 18, 2007 at 21:28 UTC
Worked like a charm. Thanks a lot. If you're ever in Denver, you may collect many beers....	[reply]