I thought I might try to build from source on Windows, experiment a bit
and maybe make some contributions to the code, but my attempts to get
started and RTFM are not getting very far. The only official
documentation I see is Installation.txt, which just has some outdated
Unix info. (I say outdated because Perl 5.0 hasn't been on FreeBSD in
ages.) There is also
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Logitech_Media_Server_development_on_Windows
which says very little, and makes discouraging statements like "The
sources that are included with the SlimServer distribution pretty much
aren't used under Windows".
Plowing ahead anyway, I installed ActivePerl, forked the slimserver and
slimserver-platforms repos on GitHub, cloned the forks to my local hard
drive.
Then I tried running slimserver-platforms\buildme.pl, but it fails
immediately because it looks in a nonexistent directory for the release
version:
Code:
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E:\docs\private\misc\dev\git_repos\slimserver-platforms>buildme.pl --build
win32 --buildDir F:\perltmp --sourceDir
E:\docs\private\misc\dev\git_repos\slimserver --destDir E:\apps\LMS
INFO: Required variables passed in. Moving forward.
Couldn't open
E:\docs\private\misc\dev\git_repos\slimserver/server/slimserver.pl to get the
version # of this release: No such file
or directory
--------------------
Just running the slimserver\slimserver.pl as-is failed as well, and I
was admonished to use an older version of ActivePerl (5.14) than what
I'm using (5.24.1).
Code:
--------------------
E:\docs\private\misc\dev\git_repos\slimserver>perl slimserver.pl
The following modules failed to load: EV JSON::XS
To run from source on Windows, please install ActivePerl 5.14. ActivePerl
5.10.0 is no longer supported.
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/releases/
Exiting..
--------------------
So now I figure maybe I should just ask... what's the right way to get
going?
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