porting a linx perl/tk program on window$

fredo31 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi ! I have made a perl/Tk program on linux and I have to translate it for windows. I installed active perl on windows. The problem is that active perl provide Tkx which is very different form Tk. Moreover Tkx seems to bee really poorly documented, for example after long searches on google I can't even find the syntax for a checkbutton... So what can I do ? Where can I find a good documentation on Tkx ? Or is there a simple way to install Tk on windows ? many thanks

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Re: porting a linx perl/tk program on window$ by Anonymous Monk on May 14, 2009 at 08:55 UTC
ActivePerl comes with Tk and/or you can easily install it with `ppm install Tk`. Tkx::Tutorial	[reply] [d/l]
Re: porting a linx perl/tk program on window$ by zentara (Cardinal) on May 14, 2009 at 12:09 UTC
Honest , it is easier in the long run to just learn linux..... MSWindows tries to purposely make things hard for you. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku	[reply]
Re: porting a linx perl/tk program on window$ by doug (Pilgrim) on May 14, 2009 at 18:56 UTC
Doesn't cygwin supply the perl/Tk package? I know I've written perl/Tk that's run on linux and windows, but I don't remember if that was cygwin or ActiveState. As for the documentation issue, I own the O'Reilly book. I didn't think it was the best ORA book ever, but was good enough for what I was doing at the time. -- doug	[reply]
Re: porting a linx perl/tk program on window$ by lamprecht (Friar) on May 16, 2009 at 21:24 UTC
Perl/Tk builds without problems on Strawberry-perl. It should build as well using AS-perl MinGW/dmake. Ppm Packages are listed here http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Tk. Christoph	[reply]
Re^2: porting a linx perl/tk program on window$ by fredo31 (Initiate) on May 18, 2009 at 15:56 UTC
Thanks for all the answers ! Building Perl/Tk on window$ is really a nightmare... I installed MinGW and try to compile Tk-804.028. "make" is unknown command and mingw32-make produce errors and does not built... I don't know what to do. C:\logiciels\Tk-804.028>C:\MinGW\bin\mingw32-make makefile:1776: warning: overriding commands for target `manifest' makefile:1183: warning: ignoring old commands for target `manifest' mingw32-make: *** No rule to make target `C:\Perl\libConfig.pm', needed by `make file'. Stop.	[reply]
Re^3: porting a linx perl/tk program on window$ by Anonymous Monk on May 18, 2009 at 16:07 UTC
ppm install Tk	[reply]
Re^3: porting a linx perl/tk program on window$ by Anonymous Monk on May 18, 2009 at 16:43 UTC
you're supposed to use dmake	[reply]