I had the same problems with MARC:Charset and MARC:File:XML. Had to compile
them myself using Microsoft's nmake program.
Here's my less-than-ideal notes. I may have missed some things at the end
here, too. Sorry, I switched to using yaz-dump instead, since that did what I
wanted.
1. Install ActiveState Perl
2. Download and unpack 'nmake' from microsoft [1] drop files in perl/bin
3. Restart the computer (to get the env varirables set)
4. Lanuch ppm from the command line, install:
* marc-record
* xml-sax
* xml-sax-expat
5. Run this from the command line to fix an oversight in the ppm install
perl -MXML::SAX -e "XML::SAX->add_parser('XML::SAX::Expat')->save_parsers()"
6. Download and unpack MARC::Charset and MARC:File:XML
7. Go into each of the directories created for those and issue this from the
command line:
perl Makefile.pl
nmake
nmake test
nmake install
Hope this is useful.
--Dave
[1] http://johnbokma.com/perl/make-for-windows.html -- this page describes how
to use it and provides a link to the MS site where you can download it (for
free).
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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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From: Code for Libraries [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bryan Baldus
[[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] activestate and marc::batch
On Thursday, October 01, 2009 2:02 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>Specifically, once I install ActiveState Perl on a Windows computer, will I be
>able to install MARC::Batch and all of its friends as well?
I have no problems running ActiveState Perl with the MARC::Batch/MARC::Record
distribution set of modules. The only problems I've experienced were with
MARC::Charset and MARC::File::XML. I haven't had a significant need to use
these modules, but when I attempted to install them, if I recall correctly, I
had trouble with the XML parsing modules/dependencies/set-up. Someone with more
experience working with XML parsing modules would likely be more successful.
Also, when installing MARC::Lint and MARC::Errorchecks through ppm, I believe
ppm may complain or fail to install one of the modules due to the overlapping
MARC::Lint::CodeData module included with both.
After installing the MARC::* modules using ppm, I'll usually manually update
all of the .pm files with the most recent copy (from SourceForge), placing each
in its appropriate spot in C:\Perl\site\lib\MARC\. I believe this manual
process may be part of the source of my problems with Charset and XML (though
for those, I have attempted to follow the official/standard automated
installation process).
I hope this helps,
Bryan Baldus
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://home.inwave.com/eija
