Summary: XML::SAX::Writer depends on Text::Iconv but I have been unable to install this on Windows XP despite trying three different ways.
1. The perl CPAN Iconv distribution is missing iconv.h, so install Text::Iconv via CPAN fails.
2. I tried running ppm to download a precompiled Iconv, but got a failure in ppm.bat. (This might be the easiest fix.) The ActiveState directory says that Iconv has status FAIL. But http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/ has Text-Iconv.ppd 19-Dec-2003 00:50 418 Unfortunately this is just the metadata and I cannot find the actual precompiled module.
3. I tried compiling the gnu programs libiconv and gettext and got different failures there.
Or, is there any way to turn off this dependency, or a different module that is similar but which does not have this dependency.
Please help!
Details:
I am trying to follow the suggestion Kip made below (thanks Kip) to use XML::SAX::Writer, but this depends on Text::Iconv.
My environment: I am running perl 5.8.0 and MS VC 98 compiler and tools. Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 12.00.8168 for 80x86 My "shell" is just cmd.exe aka command prompt aka the plain old DOS box.
1. I try to install using: perl -MCPAN -e shell When I say install XML::SAX::Writer everything is fine until it stops with: ---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during [R/RB/RBERJON/XML-SAX-Writer-0.44. tar.gz] ----- Text::Iconv Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue
If I say yes it fails due to missing iconv.h, as follows ... CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MP/MPIOTR/Text-Iconv-1.2.tar.gz
Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for Text::Iconv
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.
cp Iconv.pm blib\lib\Text\Iconv.pm AutoSplitting blib\lib\Text\Iconv.pm (blib\lib\auto\Text\Iconv) C:\bin\perl.exe C:\Perl\lib\ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap C:\Perl\lib\ExtUti ls\typemap -typemap typemap Iconv.xs > Iconv.xsc && C:\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils: :Command -e mv Iconv.xsc Iconv.c cl -c -nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_ST RICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DVERSION=\"1.2\" -DXS_VERSION=\" 1.2\" "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE" Iconv.c Iconv.c Iconv.xs(15) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'iconv.h': No such f ile or directory NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0x2' Stop. C:\perl\bin\nmake.EXE -- NOT OK Running make test Can't test without successful make
2. Then I tried to get Iconv from the ppm shell (which in this case is the ppm.bat file in my c:\perl\bin\). But I hit this problem: C:\TEMP>ppm Can't locate XML/ValidatingElement.pm in @INC (@INC contains: c:/Perl/lib c:/Per l/site/lib .) at c:/Perl/site/lib/XML/PPD.pm line 8. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at c:/Perl/site/lib/XML/PPD.pm line 8.
It looks like it is off a level, and/or my @INC needs to be modified. So I tried cd \perl\site\lib\PPM and then ran it again and got this error:
Can't locate object method "rvalidate" via package "XML::PPMConfig::PPMCONFIG" a t c:/Perl/site/lib/PPM.pm line 1620.
3. So I downloaded the gnu versions of libiconv and gettext and followed the instructions in README.woe32 in libiconv and successfully make libiconv using nmake Makefile.msvc -NONLS=1 as stated in step 1.
Most of gettext compiled OK, but then it died, whle trying to compile msgmerge.c (in gettest-tools/src/) I think because of a problem in obstack.h. the make ending with this:
/out:msgfmt.exe msgfmt.obj write-mo.obj write-java.obj write-csharp.obj write-resources.obj write-tcl.obj write-qt.obj plural-eval.obj gettextsrc.lib ..\lib\gettextlib.lib ..\intl\intl.lib c:\usr\lib\iconv.lib cl -I. -I.. -I..\libuniname -I..\lib -I..\intl -I..\..\gettext-runtime\i ntl -I..\windows -Ic:\usr\include -W1 -D_NDEBUG -O1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR =\"c:\\usr\\share\\locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"\" -DGETTEXTJAR=\"c:\\usr\\sha re\\gettext\\gettext.jar\" -DLIBDIR=\"c:\\usr\\lib\" -DGETTEXTDATADIR=\"c:\\usr\ \share\\gettext\" -DPROJECTSDIR=\"c:\\usr\\share\\gettext\\projects\" -DINSTALLP REFIX=\"c:\\usr\" -DINSTALLDIR=\"c:\\usr\\bin\" -c -Tp msgmerge.c Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 12.00.8168 for 80x86 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1998. All rights reserved.
msgmerge.c msgmerge.c(413) : warning C4508: 'main' : function should return a value; 'void' return type assumed msgmerge.c(677) : error C2660: '_obstack_begin' : function does not take 5 param eters msgmerge.c(693) : error C2660: '_obstack_newchunk' : function does not take 2 pa rameters msgmerge.c(722) : error C2660: '_obstack_newchunk' : function does not take 2 pa rameters msgmerge.c(752) : error C2660: '_obstack_newchunk' : function does not take 2 pa rameters msgmerge.c(782) : error C2660: '_obstack_newchunk' : function does not take 2 pa rameters msgmerge.c(824) : error C2660: '_obstack_free' : function does not take 2 parame ters NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\BIN\NMAKE.EXE' : return co de '0x2' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\BIN\NMAKE.EXE' : return co de '0x2' Stop.
But note that obstack.c did build succesfully. (I do wonder why obstack.h is in the lib directory.)
Directory of C:\TEMP\gettext-0.14.1\gettext-tools\lib
11/05/2002 11:41 AM 19,711 obstack.c 08/24/2003 10:05 AM 23,630 obstack.h 03/07/2004 12:48 AM 3,104 obstack.obj
Thanks-in-advance-again-ly yours, Steve
-----Original Message-----> From: Kip Hampton [mailto:khampton@totalcinema.com] > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 3:07 AM> To: Tolkin, Steve> Cc: 'perl-xml@listserv.ActiveState.com'> Subject: Re: Parsing a record oriented file into XML>
Summary:> XML::SAX::Writer depends on Text::Iconv but I have been> unable to install this on Windows XP> despite trying three different ways.>
1. The perl CPAN Iconv distribution is missing iconv.h,> so install Text::Iconv via CPAN fails.>
2. I tried running ppm to download> a precompiled Iconv, but got a failure in ppm.bat.> (This might be the easiest fix.)> The ActiveState directory says that Iconv has status FAIL.> But http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/ has> Text-Iconv.ppd 19-Dec-2003 00:50 418> Unfortunately this is just the metadata> and I cannot find the actual precompiled module.
You should just be able to say, from a command line, ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Text-Iconv.ppd and ppm will fetch the binary archive for you (as specified in the CODEBASE of the .ppd file).
3. I tried compiling the gnu programs libiconv and gettext> and got different failures there.
I forget the details, but I recall I had to do some fiddling with the sources to get it to compile.
-- best regards, randy kobes _______________________________________________ Perl-XML mailing list Perl-XML@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
Dear Randy, I wish think worked. In the details section of my original email I explained that my ppm is broken and I don't know how to fix it.
Here I repeat what I said:
2. Then I tried to get Iconv from the ppm shell (which in this case is the ppm.bat file in my c:\perl\bin\). But I hit this problem: C:\TEMP>ppm Can't locate XML/ValidatingElement.pm in @INC (@INC contains: c:/Perl/lib c:/Per l/site/lib .) at c:/Perl/site/lib/XML/PPD.pm line 8. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at c:/Perl/site/lib/XML/PPD.pm line 8.
It looks like it is off a level, and/or my @INC needs to be modified. So I tried cd \perl\site\lib\PPM and then ran it again and got this error:
Can't locate object method "rvalidate" via package "XML::PPMConfig::PPMCONFIG" a t c:/Perl/site/lib/PPM.pm line 1620.
If there is no better way I will re-install perl, but I prefer not to -- I am concerned that may break even more things. I could not find a way to just install ppm.
Is there a way to just reinstall ppm? Or to diagnose and repair the one I have?
Thanks, Steve
-----Original Message-----> From: Randy Kobes [mailto:randy@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca] > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 9:49 AM> To: Tolkin, Steve> Cc: 'Kip Hampton'; 'perl-xml@listserv.ActiveState.com'> Subject: Re: How to get Text::Iconv on Windows>
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Tolkin, Steve wrote:>
Summary:> > XML::SAX::Writer depends on Text::Iconv but I have been> > unable to install this on Windows XP> > despite trying three different ways.> >
1. The perl CPAN Iconv distribution is missing iconv.h,> > so install Text::Iconv via CPAN fails.> >
2. I tried running ppm to download> > a precompiled Iconv, but got a failure in ppm.bat.> > (This might be the easiest fix.)> > The ActiveState directory says that Iconv has status FAIL.> > But http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/ has> > Text-Iconv.ppd 19-Dec-2003 00:50 418> > Unfortunately this is just the metadata> > and I cannot find the actual precompiled module.>
You should just be able to say, from a command line,> ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Text-Iconv.ppd> and ppm will fetch the binary archive for you (as specified> in the CODEBASE of the .ppd file).>
3. I tried compiling the gnu programs libiconv and gettext> > and got different failures there.>
I forget the details, but I recall I had to do some> fiddling with the sources to get it to compile.>
Dear Randy,> I wish think worked.> In the details section of my original email I explained> that my ppm is broken and I don't know how to fix it.>
Here I repeat what I said:>
2. Then I tried to get Iconv from the ppm shell> (which in this case is the ppm.bat file in my c:\perl\bin\).> But I hit this problem:> C:\TEMP>ppm> Can't locate XML/ValidatingElement.pm in @INC (@INC contains: c:/Perl/lib> c:/Perl/site/lib .) at c:/Perl/site/lib/XML/PPD.pm line 8.> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at c:/Perl/site/lib/XML/PPD.pm line 8.
Is there a way to just reinstall ppm?> Or to diagnose and repair the one I have?
[ ... ]
I'm not sure what the problem here is - do you have an XML/ValidatingElement.pm somewhere under C:\Perl? By chance, did you install the PPM package from CPAN on top of an ActivePerl distribution? If so, it may be that some of these files are getting mixed up. Did ppm ever work for you?
What might be easiest in the long term is to reinstall Perl, unfortuately, as such configuration problems may be indicative of something more fundamentally askew.
-- best regards, randy _______________________________________________ Perl-XML mailing list Perl-XML@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
Summary: I did manage to get Text::Iconv -- as shown below. However I think there is a bug in ppm3. ppm3 told me that it had successfully installed several modules but it had not -- they were not installed! The fix was to manually install IO::Zlib from CPAN. You can regard this as a bug report. (Perhaps I should reinstall perl, and see if this bug goes away, but to test it I would also need to uninstall IO::Zlib and I don't want to do that either.)
Details: In my c:\perl\bin there was also a ppm3.bat and I ran that. Unlike ppm.bat, this did work. In it I ran the command you suggested and it seemed to work, i.e. it said it succeeded. But in fact it had not! I believe the problem is that I needed IO::Zlib and could not use ppm3 to install it. Ultimately I installed this using CPAN, and then afterwards ppm3 worked.
C:\Perl\lib>ppm3 PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.0.1. Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState SRL. All Rights Reserved.
Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Perl as readline library. ... Profile tracking is not enabled. If you save and restore profiles manually, your profile may be out of sync with your computer. See 'help profile' for more information.
Type 'help' to get started.
SetConsoleMode failed, LastError=|6| at c:/Perl/site/lib/Term/ReadKey.pm line 26 8.ppm> install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Text-Iconv.ppd ==================== Install 'Text-Iconv' version 1.2 in ActivePerl 5.8.0.805. ==================== Downloaded 638177 bytes. Compression not available - Install IO::Zlib! at c:/Perl/site/lib/PPM/Archive/Ta r.pm line 25 Successfully installed Text-Iconv version 1.2 in ActivePerl 5.8.0.805.ppm>
==================== Install 'IO-Zlib' version 1.01 in ActivePerl 5.8.0.805. ==================== Downloaded 4119 bytes. Compression not available - Install IO::Zlib! at c:/Perl/site/lib/PPM/Archive/Ta r.pm line 25 Successfully installed IO-Zlib version 1.01 in ActivePerl 5.8.0.805.ppm>
After installing a few more modules I said query * to see what I had
query *
Querying target 1 (ActivePerl 5.8.0.805) 1. Archive-Tar [0.072] module for manipulation of tar archives. 2. Compress-Zlib [1.16] Interface to zlib compression library ... 12. IO-Zlib [1.01] IO:: style interface to L<Compress::Zlib> ... 18. Text-Iconv [1.2] Perl interface to iconv() codeset conversion ~ ...
And iit really looks like I have installed it, e.g.
prop Text-Iconv
==================== Name: Text-Iconv Version: 1.2 Author: Michael Piotrowski <mxp@dynalabs.de> Title: Text-Iconv Abstract: Perl interface to iconv() codeset conversion function InstDate: Sun Mar 7 14:17:55 2004 Location: http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms Available Platforms: 1. MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8 ====================
But then I tried to use a module that depended on it and I got an error. So continuing to investigate it looks like the Iconv.pm file is nowhere to be found, and certainly not where it ought to be.
C:\Perl\site\lib>cd ppm-conf
C:\Perl\site\lib\ppm-conf>more Text-Iconv.pkg INSTDATE: Sun Mar 7 14:17:55 2004 INSTPACKLIST: C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Text\Iconv\.packlist INSTROOT: C:\Perl LOCATION: http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms dependents: @ : XML-SAX-Writer
And when I run ppm2 again and say query * again indeed Text-Iconv is NOT THERE ANYMORE!! Nor are several other modules I had just installed including IO::Zlib.
==================== Install 'Text-Iconv' version 1.2 in ActivePerl 5.8.0.805. ==================== Downloaded 638177 bytes. Extracting 26/26: blib Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Text\Iconv\Iconv.bs Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Text\Iconv\Iconv.dll Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Text\Iconv\Iconv.exp Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Text\Iconv\Iconv.lib Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\Text\Iconv.html Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Text\Iconv.pm Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Text\Iconv\autosplit.ix Successfully installed Text-Iconv version 1.2 in ActivePerl 5.8.0.805.ppm>
Now it is really there!
-- Hopefully-helpfully yours, Steve
-----Original Message-----> From: Randy Kobes [mailto:randy@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca] > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 4:02 PM> To: Tolkin, Steve> Cc: 'Kip Hampton'; 'perl-xml@listserv.ActiveState.com'> Subject: RE: How to get Text::Iconv on Windows>
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Tolkin, Steve wrote:>
Dear Randy,> > I wish think worked.> > In the details section of my original email I explained> > that my ppm is broken and I don't know how to fix it.> >
Here I repeat what I said:> >
2. Then I tried to get Iconv from the ppm shell> > (which in this case is the ppm.bat file in my c:\perl\bin\).> > But I hit this problem:> > C:\TEMP>ppm> > Can't locate XML/ValidatingElement.pm in @INC (@INC > contains: c:/Perl/lib> > c:/Perl/site/lib .) at c:/Perl/site/lib/XML/PPD.pm line 8.> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at > c:/Perl/site/lib/XML/PPD.pm line 8.>
Is there a way to just reinstall ppm?> > Or to diagnose and repair the one I have?> [ ... ]>
I'm not sure what the problem here is - do you have an> XML/ValidatingElement.pm somewhere under C:\Perl?> By chance, did you install the PPM package from CPAN> on top of an ActivePerl distribution? If so, it may> be that some of these files are getting mixed up.> Did ppm ever work for you?>
What might be easiest in the long term is to reinstall> Perl, unfortuately, as such configuration problems may> be indicative of something more fundamentally askew.>
I found this thread because I was trying to get Text:Iconv as a Windows binary, but I haven't been able to find it nor compile it. I looked at the make process and I just don't have access to the tools to do it myself. I've tried getting it from the UWinnipeg repository (there were old references to it being there) but either it's not there any more or I am lame. I'm willing to accept either answer at this point, as long as someone can point me to a compiled binary! Can anyone help me out?
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