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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 PERLApp 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 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.   
 
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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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.)
 
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 [http://files.xmltv.org XMLTV Sourceforge Distribution site] and grab the latest non-Win32 XMLTV distribution (for example: xmltv-0.5.65.tar.bz2.
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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.
  
4. Extract tar.bz2 source tree 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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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.
  
 
5. Open a windows command prompt (cmd.exe) and CD to the local directory you specified above (e.g. c:\xmltv).
 
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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   cpan XML::Twig
 
   cpan XML::Twig
 
   cpan Tk
 
   cpan Tk
   cpan Tk::TableMatrix -- currently fails.. only needed for tv_check
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   cpan Tk::TableMatrix
 
   cpan HTTP::Cache::Transparent
 
   cpan HTTP::Cache::Transparent
 
   cpan DateTime
 
   cpan DateTime
 
   cpan DateTime::Format::ISO8601
 
   cpan DateTime::Format::ISO8601
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  cpan DateTime::Format::SQLite
 
   cpan XML::Writer
 
   cpan XML::Writer
 
   cpan XML::TreePP
 
   cpan XML::TreePP
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   cpan Switch
 
   cpan Switch
 
   cpan HTML::FormatText
 
   cpan HTML::FormatText
  cpan DateTime::Format::SQLite
 
 
   cpan LWP::UserAgent::Determined
 
   cpan LWP::UserAgent::Determined
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  cpan URI::Encode
  
  
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9. Build XMLTV normally 'gmake'
 
9. Build XMLTV normally 'gmake'
  
10. You can test XMTLV if you wish 'gmake test', but I fail 2/5 programs, 26/125 subtests
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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.
  
 
11. Install to strawberry's bin folder with 'gmake install'  (it will fail, but important stuff is there)
 
11. Install to strawberry's bin folder with 'gmake install'  (it will fail, but important stuff is there)

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! :)