http://jfontain.free.fr/tclperl.htm Of related interest are "[Ways to execute Perl programs from Tcl]". --- Unfortunalely No debian package for this exist.I could not build this on debian too. First it could not find tcl.h , then I installed tcl-dev. Now it says -lperl not found. There is no make or configure , direct cc and it gets into these problems. Very poor or no packaging . People who are enthusiastic to try out this are warned that all these plumbing work needs to be done to install it on debian. --vkv