RE: [tcltk-perl] packaging Tcl::Tk and Tcl/Tk files within Perl installation

[Jan D. <ja...@Ac...>]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Konovalov, Vadim wrote:
> Your code mostly refers to __hpux, which I am not familiar.
>
> Did I understood correctly that "sl" in "libtcl8.4.sl" stands for
> "starpack library"?

No, it stands for "shared library".  It is the HP-UX equivalent of
a .so or .dll.

> Why only __hpux then, why not any linux system also involved?

Older versions of HP-UX don't have dlopen() support and the emulation of
dlopen() inside DynaLoader is not easily accessible from XS code.

Cheers,
-Jan