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According to http://www.lostmind.de/gtk2-perl/:
GTK+/Win32 Runtime Environment Installer 2.8.20-1 If you are just going to write programs with gtk2-perl you will only need the Runtime Environment. Please remember that the binaries provided for gtk2-perl are depending on this version of GTK+!
So it looks like you need version 2.8.20-1 instead of 2.10.11 of the runtime environment.

That site also specifically recommends ActiveState's perl build 819, which is a build of perl 5.8.8 using their build process. I doubt this is quite as important as the GTK+ version, though.
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Re^2: Installing Gtk2 using PPM on Windows
by deadpickle (Pilgrim) on Aug 13, 2007 at 20:12 UTC
    Is anyone successful at installing Gtk2 to a windows system? If so what are you using?
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      I installed ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 Build 819 along with Gtk+ runtime environment 2.8.20 on my Vista machine and it seems to work ok. I next tried installing the newest perl 5.8.8.822 and installed Gtk2 1.141 using Gtk+ 2.10.11 and that seems to work also. I'm not sure what was wrong. ????
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        These are the instructions from the maillist. 
        From: Gabor Szabo <szabgab@gmail.com>

For ActiveState users

* I assume you already have ActiveState Perl installed on your system.
If not, download and install ActiveState Perl from
http://activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/

* Next you need to install the GTK+ 2.x.x runtime environment. The
latest version can be downloaded from
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

* Ensure that the <INSTALL_PATH>\GTK\2.0\bin directory is in your
PATH after this installation.

* Next you need to install the Win32 binary packages for gtk2-perl.
Download and install the latest version of Gtk2.ppd and Glib.ppd from
http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/win32/ppm/
(Another way to install these ppds is as follows
C:\Temp> ppm install http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/win32/ppm/Gtk2.p
+pd
C:\Temp> ppm install http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/win32/ppm/Glib.p
+pd
)

Your system should be ready to roll !

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