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| − | + | Historically, one of the trickier tasks for XMLTV has been installing Perl and all the necessary modules for Windows. The situation has been made much better with the release of the Windows XMLTV distribution that includes a prepackaged executable called XMLTV.EXE. | |
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| − | Historically, one of the trickier tasks for XMLTV has been installing Perl and all the necessary modules for Windows. The situation has been made much better with the release of the Windows XMLTV distribution that includes a prepackaged | + | |
There are times when folks would like to run native XMLTV or other Perl programs on Windows. This Page documents the process I followed to do it using Strawberry Perl. | There are times when folks would like to run native XMLTV or other Perl programs on Windows. This Page documents the process I followed to do it using Strawberry Perl. | ||
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'''WARNING: I don't recommend using any directories with spaces or other special characters in them!''' | '''WARNING: I don't recommend using any directories with spaces or other special characters in them!''' | ||
| − | 1. Download/Install [http://strawberryperl.com/ Strawberry Perl] | + | '''IMPORTANT: Unlike Windows, Perl is case-sensitive: "makefile.pl" is NOT the same as "Makefile.PL"''' |
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| + | 1. Download/Install [http://strawberryperl.com/ Strawberry Perl] (I use c:\strawberry ) | ||
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| + | 2. Verify your Strawberry install by opening a windows command prompt (cmd.exe) and executing "perl -v". (You type "exit" to close the command prompt.) | ||
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| + | 3. Drill down the [https://github.com/XMLTV/xmltv/releases XMLTV Github Release Page] and grab the latest source code release. | ||
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| + | 4. Extract the file to a local directory (I use c:\xmltv) . I use [http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-Zip]. Note, you may have do it twice (first unzip to .tar, then to folder. | ||
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| + | 5. Open a windows command prompt (cmd.exe) and CD to the local directory you specified above (e.g. c:\xmltv). | ||
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| + | 6. Execute "perl Makefile.PL". Look for the XMLTV utility you would like to use. Is it already "yes" to include? If not, answer the questions and note the modules the Makefile.PL says you need to include. | ||
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| + | 7. I installed the prerequisites with these commands. You only need to do the ones you need. | ||
| + | cpan Date::Manip | ||
| + | cpan XML::DOM | ||
| + | cpan XML::Twig | ||
| + | cpan Tk | ||
| + | cpan Tk::TableMatrix | ||
| + | cpan HTTP::Cache::Transparent | ||
| + | cpan DateTime | ||
| + | cpan DateTime::Format::ISO8601 | ||
| + | cpan DateTime::Format::SQLite | ||
| + | cpan XML::Writer | ||
| + | cpan XML::TreePP | ||
| + | cpan Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinate | ||
| + | cpan Lingua::Preferred | ||
| + | cpan Term::ProgressBar | ||
| + | cpan Unicode::String | ||
| + | cpan Unicode::UTF8simple | ||
| + | cpan Switch | ||
| + | cpan HTML::FormatText | ||
| + | cpan LWP::UserAgent::Determined | ||
| + | cpan URI::Encode | ||
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| + | 8. Execute 'gmake clean' (older versions used dmake) and then 'perl Makefile.PL' again... repeat step 6 until you're happy. | ||
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| + | 9. Build XMLTV normally 'gmake' | ||
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| + | 10. You can test XMTLV if you wish 'gmake test', but I fail on a bunch of tests... still seems to work. | ||
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| + | 11. Install to strawberry's bin folder with 'gmake install' (it will fail, but important stuff is there) | ||
| − | + | 12. *PROFIT* (for example, cd to another directory and type tv_grab_na_dd --configure ) | |
| − | + | We should work on fixing the test and install parts of the Makefile for windows! :) | |
Latest revision as of 01:19, 11 March 2022
Historically, one of the trickier tasks for XMLTV has been installing Perl and all the necessary modules for Windows. The situation has been made much better with the release of the Windows XMLTV distribution that includes a prepackaged executable called XMLTV.EXE.
There are times when folks would like to run native XMLTV or other Perl programs on Windows. This Page documents the process I followed to do it using Strawberry Perl.
Strawberry Perl is a perl environment for MS Windows containing all you need to run and develop perl applications. It is designed to be as close as possible to perl environment on UNIX systems.
Strawberry Perl is a Windows Perl distribution that includes a compiler (gcc) and other tools that allow you to install packages from CPAN just like you would on a Unix/Linux system.
WARNING: I don't recommend using any directories with spaces or other special characters in them!
IMPORTANT: Unlike Windows, Perl is case-sensitive: "makefile.pl" is NOT the same as "Makefile.PL"
1. Download/Install Strawberry Perl (I use c:\strawberry )
2. Verify your Strawberry install by opening a windows command prompt (cmd.exe) and executing "perl -v". (You type "exit" to close the command prompt.)
3. Drill down the XMLTV Github Release Page and grab the latest source code release.
4. Extract the file to a local directory (I use c:\xmltv) . I use 7-Zip. Note, you may have do it twice (first unzip to .tar, then to folder.
5. Open a windows command prompt (cmd.exe) and CD to the local directory you specified above (e.g. c:\xmltv).
6. Execute "perl Makefile.PL". Look for the XMLTV utility you would like to use. Is it already "yes" to include? If not, answer the questions and note the modules the Makefile.PL says you need to include.
7. I installed the prerequisites with these commands. You only need to do the ones you need.
cpan Date::Manip cpan XML::DOM cpan XML::Twig cpan Tk cpan Tk::TableMatrix cpan HTTP::Cache::Transparent cpan DateTime cpan DateTime::Format::ISO8601 cpan DateTime::Format::SQLite cpan XML::Writer cpan XML::TreePP cpan Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinate cpan Lingua::Preferred cpan Term::ProgressBar cpan Unicode::String cpan Unicode::UTF8simple cpan Switch cpan HTML::FormatText cpan LWP::UserAgent::Determined cpan URI::Encode
8. Execute 'gmake clean' (older versions used dmake) and then 'perl Makefile.PL' again... repeat step 6 until you're happy.
9. Build XMLTV normally 'gmake'
10. You can test XMTLV if you wish 'gmake test', but I fail on a bunch of tests... still seems to work.
11. Install to strawberry's bin folder with 'gmake install' (it will fail, but important stuff is there)
12. *PROFIT* (for example, cd to another directory and type tv_grab_na_dd --configure )
We should work on fixing the test and install parts of the Makefile for windows! :)
