Greetings Monks, I am running strawberry perl 5.30 under windows 11.

When the program below reaches the start function, it fails with the seemingly nonsensical error "Can't locate auto/Tk/ROText/FILENO.al". Tieing only STDOUT to the same widget is no problem.

Does anyone have any insight as to what is happening here?

use warnings;
use strict;

use IPC::Run qw(start pump finish timeout);
use Tk;
require Tk::ROText;

my $mw = MainWindow->new(-title => "   NON BLOCKING");
my $outw = $mw->Scrolled('ROText',  
            -font => "{Courier New} 10 bold", 
                -background => 'DarkBlue', 
            -foreground => 'OldLace',
            -scrollbars => 'se',
            -wrap => 'none',
            -width => 100,
            -height => 10,
            )->pack(-fill => "both", -expand => 1);
                                                                      
+                                          
# tie *STDOUT, 'Tk::Text', $outw;
tie *STDERR, 'Tk::Text', $outw;

my ($in, $out, $err) = ('', '', '');    
my $h;

if (! defined(eval { $h = start ['cmd.exe', '/c', 'dir'], \$in, \$out,
+ \$err; })) 
{
  print "\nStart failed: $@\n";
}

while($h->pumpable) 
{
  $h->pump;
  print $out;
  $out = '';
}

$h->finish;

MainLoop;

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In reply to Tieing STDERR to a textbox causes the IPC::Run start function to fail by CrashBlossom

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