Cannot find Tcl dll ( Perl's Tcl bridge )
 

Greetings all,

I am having a small issue with installing ( and using ) the Tcl bridge for Perl with my Fedora Core 5 installation. I downloaded and installed both ActivePerl & ActiveTcl with no problems at all. Then I downloaded the Tcl & Tcl::Tk modules ( zipped ) and installed them through PPM locally ( off the drive, because my laptop cannot be networked or connected to internet ). All went well so far.

When I come to use the Tcl ( or Tcl::Tk ) module in Perl I get the following error.

As far as I am aware, DLL's are used only in Windows and everything I have installed is for Linux so I cannot fathom why a DLL is attempting to be loaded. The ~/ActiveTcl/bin directory is in my path, as per the installers instructions..

In Windows installing these were a breeze so I expect the solution to this to be quite simple yet my internet searches ( on Google ) have revealed nothing. Do I somehow need to include the ~/AvtiveTcl/lib somewhere ( such as PATH ) ?

Any solutions or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

You may be missing some dynamical library. Linux has those too, they just don't have the .dll filename extension.

Did you need to make some changes to your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or other environment variables)? If you did, can you please post the changes you made?

I only made one change which was to my PATH as per ActiveTcl's instructions ( at the end of the installer ). Which was simply adding ~/ActiveTcl/bin ( it was the actual full path though ). Which I verified with

I did see something regarding LD_LIBRARY_PATH whilst doing some searches on Google but when I print out my environment variables, it is not there and ( as far as I understand ) is deprecated/shouldn't be used..