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

So I have successfully installed Strawberry Perl 5.12, GTK2, and the Gtk-perl bindings on Windows XP SP3. I have tested and verified that the gtk-perl application works without any issue when just running the perl script manually, however when I package it via pp and link correctly, I seem to get an error when trying to start the application

--- Here is the error --- 
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\testgtk\test>testgtk.e
+xe
GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion `g_t
+ype_from_n
ame (name) == 0' failed at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 2
+23.
cannot register alias Gtk2::Pango::Attribute for the unregistered type
+ (null) at
 C:/strawberry/perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 223.
Compilation failed in require at script/testgtk.pl line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at script/testgtk.pl line 1.

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-- Here is the pp + linking command i used -- 
pp -l "C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\auto\Cairo\Cairo.dll" -l "C:\strawb
+erry\perl\site\lib\auto\Pango\Pango.dll" -l "C:\strawberry\perl\site\
+lib\auto\Glib\Glib.dll" -l "C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\auto\Gtk2\Gtk
+2.dll" -o testgtk.exe testgtk.pl

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-- Here is the sample GTK code that works manually -- 
use Gtk2 '-init';
 
$window = Gtk2::Window->new('toplevel');
$window->set_title("Hello World!");
 
$button = Gtk2::Button->new("Press me");
$button->signal_connect(clicked => sub { print "Hello again - the butt
+on was pressed\n"; });
 
$window->add($button);
$window->show_all;
 
Gtk2->main;
 
0;

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Re: pp + GTK2 + win32
by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Oct 22, 2010 at 06:21 UTC
    The sample Gtk2 code isn't correct. Added Gtk2->main_quit;. It'll close now. Try this: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Gtk2 '-init';
 
my $window = Gtk2::Window->new;
 
my $button = Gtk2::Button->new('Press me');
$button->signal_connect(clicked => sub { print "Hello again - the butt
+on was pressed\n"; });
$window->add($button);
$window->signal_connect(destroy => sub { Gtk2->main_quit; }); 
$window->show_all;

Gtk2->main;

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Re: pp + GTK2 + win32
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 22, 2010 at 06:27 UTC
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        Activestate PDK can make exe from gtk2 perl files the easy way

        Its not any easier

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Re: pp + GTK2 + win32
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 16, 2011 at 02:29 UTC
    I'm getting the exact same error compiling Perl-Gtk2 apps using pp on Windows 7 using the CamelBox perl distribution and I can't for the life of me figure out why. I can compile Perl-Gtk apps fine using Perl2Exe, which I'd prefer not to use. Any ideas?
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        perlapp from Activestate's PDK isn't a much better option to Perl2Exe being that it's a non-free, commercial solution. Indigo Star's Perl2Exe Pro (Pro is required to support the --gui option which suppresses the console, a requirement for stand alone perl GUI apps) costs $149 and really isn't that good. ActiveState's perlapp, which is distributed with their PDK (Perl Dev Kit) costs $295. pp is free and would be the preferred solution. If I'm left with no other option I guess I'd shell out the $295 for ActiveState's PDK, but I'd really prefer not too.
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