I suspect the Tcl/Tk DLLs are simply not in scope/installed - worth
checking at least.
--sigbjorn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alastair Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 9:42 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Possible sources of message "Error while importing DLL"?
>
>
>
> [CC redirected to hugs-bugs, hugs-users shouldn't be seeing
> bug reports]
>
> The error message is printed when a call to Win32's LoadLibrary call
> returns NULL. This could indicate:
>
> o That the dll was incorrectly linked, or corrupted during download.
>
> You can check this using Win32 tools which show you
> information about
> dll files. (I forget which ones, perhaps just the usual "Get Info"
> menu item.)
>
> o That the dll was built against a very different version of Hugs.
>
> Very unlikely, the Hugs<->dll interface has been stable for
> a long time
> and most changes would affect later stages in the code.
>
> o That the dll was built against a different version of Win32 or TCL.
>
> Possible - there's a number of versions of both out there. Win32
> incompatabilities usually don't show up at load-time (Microsoft
> seems to prefer runtime errors to load-time errors) but it could
> happen. I have no experience of tcl.
>
> If you built all your code from source (as opposed to
> downloading a binary
> from somewhere), this isn't too likely.
>
> o The the dll is not on the search path.
>
> Shouldn't apply because we use an absolute pathname to load
> the library.
> I doubt it's relevant but maybe the ".." in the pathname is causing
> problems? You could test this by loading just
>
> C:\FranTK\src\TclHaskellSrc\TclPrim.hs
>
> I have limited access to Win32 boxes these days so I'm afraid I can't
> do anything to check any of these - try 'em all, start with
> the easiest.
>
> [I also can't comment on atwoodj's theory about DOS environment sizes
> - I don't know Win95 well enough.]
>
>
> Alastair
>
>
> > Fritz K Ruehr wrote:
> > >
> > > During an installation and first test run of FranTk under Hugs
> > > (latest release) within Win 95, my student and I encountered an
> > > error message about importing a DLL file:
> > >
> > > -------
> > >
> > > ...
> > > Reading file "C:\HUGS98\..\FranTK\src\TclHaskellSrc\TclPrim.hs":
> > > Reading file "C:\HUGS98\lib\exts\Word.hs":
> > > Reading file "C:\HUGS98\..\FranTK\src\TclHaskellSrc\TclPrim.hs":
> > > Parsing
> > > ERROR "C:\HUGS98\..\FranTK\src\TclHaskellSrc\TclPrim.hs":
> Error while importing
> > > DLL "C:\FranTK\src\TclHaskellSrc\TclPrim.dll"
> > >
> > > -------
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what sorts of problems are likely to lead to this
> > > message? More specifically, is this likely to be an
> internal problem
> > > with the DLL file or a file access problem? There were
> some differences
> > > in upper/lowercase between the filename and reference,
> but fixing this
> > > did not fix the problem.
>
>
