Perl Tk on Windows

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

I have finished development of a little quiz program using Tk. I developed on my Linux machine, "knowing" that Active State had a version of Perl with Tk available. Now I find out that my knowledge is old -- I can't find any way to get a working Tk distribution for any version of ActivePerl. (The proxy on this network won't work with the automated ppm program, so I need to be able to directly download the package, which used to be possible, but even that seems to be causing me problems.)

How can I go about getting a working Perl-Tk on this system? (There is a machine around with an older version -- maybe I will be lucky and the install files are still on the machine… but otherwise, I definitely need a solution quickly.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Perl Tk on Windows by zentara (Cardinal) on Jul 30, 2011 at 20:19 UTC
See ActivePerl w/Tk, but you may need to google for up-to-date locations. That would be ppm list with Tk I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]
Re^2: Perl Tk on Windows by mpolo (Chaplain) on Jul 30, 2011 at 20:49 UTC
Thanks for your help. It occurred to me to search the hard drive for an old version, and it turned out that I had a 5.8.8.820 installer around, so I just uninstalled the 5.8.14 and installed the old version. Everything works fine now.	[reply]
Re: Perl Tk on Windows by davies (Monsignor) on Jul 30, 2011 at 16:59 UTC
See Re^3: Perl/Tk: For Beginners. Regards, John Davies	[reply]
Re^2: Perl Tk on Windows by mpolo (Chaplain) on Jul 30, 2011 at 18:35 UTC
I have to get to the Internet through a proxy using a "pac" file to set it up, which then requires that the username be input on one web page, and the password on a second. In short, the online tool won't work for me. I would need to be able to download the ppm file directly. There used to be a place on ActiveState to do that, but I can't find it. On an old machine, I found a working Tk installation, and I'm currently trying to adjust @INC so that it will be seen. No telling if this will work, of course.	[reply]