Chilkat v11.3.0 Release Notes

Pinned December 16, 2025

  The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]

Chilkat v11.2.0 Release Notes

Pinned November 3, 2025

Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]

Semantic Versioning Starting with Chilkat 10.0.0

Pinned September 26, 2024

Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning.   Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes.  […]

Perl DynaLoader.pm: The specified module could not be found

July 23, 2024 in Perl

Question: I get the following error when trying to install the Chilkat Perl 5.24 module in ActiveState Perl on Windows C:\chilkat-9.5.0-perl-5.20-x86_64-mingw32>perl Makefile.pl Checking if your kit is complete… Looks good Generating a dmake-style Makefile Writing Makefile for chilkat Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json C:\chilkat-9.5.0-perl-5.20-x86_64-mingw32>dmake cp lib/chilkat.dll blib\lib\chilkat.dll cp lib/chilkat.pm blib\lib\chilkat.pm C:\chilkat-9.5.0-perl-5.20-x86_64-mingw32>dmake install Appending installation info to […]

Solved: Perl undefined symbol: PL_stack_base at … DynaLoader.pm

January 19, 2024 in Perl

Solution for Perl undefined symbol: PL_stack_base This problem was reported when trying to use Chilkat for the first time on a RHEL8 machine using chilkat-9.5.0-perl-5.26-x86_64-linux. Here’s the environment: # lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: RedHatEnterprise Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.9 (Ootpa) Release: 8.9 Codename: Ootpa # perl -v This is perl […]

How to Import a Perl Module

June 22, 2011 in Uncategorized

(reproduced from http://perldoc.perl.org/Exporter.html#How-to-Import) … In other files which wish to use your module there are three basic ways for them to load your module and import its symbols: use YourModule; This imports all the symbols from YourModule’s @EXPORT into the namespace of the use statement. use YourModule (); This causes perl to load your module […]

Perl: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

December 6, 2010 in Uncategorized

Question: I try to install the Chilkat Perl library into my Linux but I get this error: “/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/libchilkat.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr” Answer: The Chilkat library is supports multi-threading, so when building Perl one must use the “Multi-Threading” option.

Chilkat v9.1.0 for Perl 5.8, 5.10 on Linux read for Beta Testing

September 24, 2010 in Uncategorized

Downloads Perl 5.8, 64-bit: chilkat-9.1.0-Perl-5.8-x86_64-linux.tar.gz Perl 5.8, 32-bit: chilkat-9.1.0-Perl-5.8-x86-linux.tar.gz Perl 5.10, 64-bit: chilkat-9.1.0-Perl-5.10-x86_64-linux.tar.gz Perl 5.10, 32-bit: chilkat-9.1.0-Perl-5.10-x86-linux.tar.gz Install Instructions A. Decompress and unpack to any directory. gzip -dc chilkat-9.1.0-Perl-5.8-x86_64-linux.tar.gz | tar -xof – B. BUILD Go into the newly-created directory and type: perl Makefile.PL make make test C. INSTALL While still in that directory, type: […]

Perl Date/Time Properties

February 6, 2009 in Uncategorized

Any date/time property in Chilkat’s Perl implementation is returned as a SYSTEMTIME object. Here is sample code that demonstrates getting the ValidTo and ValidFrom property from a digital certificate: $sysTime0 = new chilkat::SYSTEMTIME(); $cert->get_ValidFrom($sysTime0); $sysTime1 = new chilkat::SYSTEMTIME(); $cert->get_ValidTo($sysTime1); print “Valid from ” . $sysTime0->{wMonth} . “/” . $sysTime0->{wDay} . “/” . $sysTime0->{wYear} . ” […]