# Newbie Tk Problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-tk-problem/107493>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 22, 2007, 8:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-tk-problem/107493 "2007-06-22T08:26:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![danielj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@danielj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielj)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 8:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-tk-problem/107493/1 "2007-06-22T08:26:34Z")

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Windows can’t find my tk84.dll when I try to

require ‘tk’

Any ideas?

I reinstalled Ruby and that didn’t work…

I used the one click installer and I don’t know how to use the  
binaries if that is the problem.

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**Author:** ![danielj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@danielj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielj)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 9:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-tk-problem/107493/2 "2007-06-22T09:45:43Z")

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On Jun 22, 1:23 pm, danielj [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Windows can’t find my tk84.dll when I try to
> 
> require ‘tk’
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> I reinstalled Ruby and that didn’t work…
> 
> I used the one click installer and I don’t know how to use the  
> binaries if that is the problem.

My dear,

You must installed tk first.  
[http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/](http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/)