Re: Problems with Tkx in par package

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Kevin Walzer <[email protected]> wrote:

> These flags seem to be ignored.


Same behaviour as in the unpacked script: temporarily rename the top level
directory of your Tcl installation and run your script - it won't work, no
matter what PERL_TCL_DL_PATH is set to.
The reason is that the Perl "glue" DLL .../auto/Tcl/Tcl.xs.dll is linked
against the "real" tcl86.dll.

pp -x  -g -a "iconic_stroke.ttf;script/iconic_stroke.ttf" -a
> "C:/Tcl;script/Tcl" -a "libs;script/Tcl/applibs"  filemorph.pl -o
> FileMorph.exe
>

Don't use -a to pack DLLs, it won't work. Instead use -l (assuming these
DLLs can be found via PATH at pack time):

-l zlib1.dll -l tcl86.dll -l tk86.dll

This will solve your DLL problem, but then Tcl will complain that it can't
find init.tcl.
Given your pp command it should have been extracted to
<cache-dir>/inc/script/Tcl/lib/tcl8.6/init.tcl
so you might try to start your script with

BEGIN { $ENV{TCL_LIBRARY} = "$ENV{PAR_TEMP}/inc/script/Tcl/lib/tcl8.6" }
use Tkx;
...

But that didn't work for me, apparently because $ENV{foo} set from Perl
isn't seen by $env(foo) from Tcl.

Cheers, Roderich