Re: ?Tk on mac- Question from a novice

At 2:33 pm -0400 15/4/05, anthony.joshua@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I'm trying to run a perl program my friend has written via komodo on his
> windows machine however it uses the tk module. Despite a few attempts I cant
> seem to install this on module on my mac. Any ideas? Am I missing something?
> Are there issues with Tk.pm on OSX?

From README.macosx in the Perl distribution (5.8.6):-



« The default of building Perl statically may cause problems with complex
applications like Tk: in that case consider building shared Perl

    Configure ... -Duseshrplib

but remember that there's a startup cost to pay in that case (see above
"libperl and Prebinding"). »

Sherm, who wrote that, may care to elaborate.

JD