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Posted on 2007-09-26 09:38:46-07 by snah
Problem to add newest ExifTool v.6.98 to Active Perl v.5.6.1.638
Hello Phil,
I'm trying to get your latest release to run with my installation of Active Perl v.5.6.1.638. For some reason I cannot get it up and running.

This is what I do:
1. Download Image-ExifTool-6.98.tar.gz and decompress it into a folder named 'Image-ExifTool-6.98'.
2. There I run 'Makefile.pl'
3. then I run 'nmake' (nmake is version 1.5)
4. then I run 'nmake install'

1. ok
2. The German OS-Message says, that "pl2bat.bat" is wrongly written or cannot be found
3. start ok. but at the very end then same message as above (in 3) is displayed.
4. in the beginning the very same message is displayed.

Begin of screenshots:
c:\temp_check\exiftool\exiftool\Image-ExifTool-6.98>makefile.pl Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for Image::ExifTool c:\temp_check\exiftool\exiftool\Image-ExifTool-6.98>nmake Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved. cp lib/Image/ExifTool/Sanyo.pm blib\lib\Image\ExifTool\Sanyo.pm cp lib/Image/ExifTool/WriteXMP.pl blib\lib\Image\ExifTool\WriteXMP.pl .... .... .... cp lib/Image/ExifTool/HP.pm blib\lib\Image\ExifTool\HP.pm cp lib/Image/ExifTool/HTML.pm blib\lib\Image\ExifTool\HTML.pm C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -IC:\Perl\lib -IC:\Perl\lib -MExtUtils::Command -e cp exiftool blib\script\exiftool C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -IC:\Perl\lib -IC:\Perl\lib -e "system qq[pl2bat.b at ].shift" blib\script\exiftool Der Befehl "pl2bat.bat" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden. c:\temp_check\exiftool\exiftool\Image-ExifTool-6.98>nmake install Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved. C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -IC:\Perl\lib -IC:\Perl\lib -MExtUtils::Command -e cp exiftool blib\script\exiftool C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -IC:\Perl\lib -IC:\Perl\lib -e "system qq[pl2bat.b at ].shift" blib\script\exiftool Der Befehl "pl2bat.bat" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden. Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Image\ExifTool.pm Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Image\ExifTool.pod .... .... .... Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\File\RandomAccess.pod Installing C:\Perl\bin\exiftool Writing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Image\ExifTool\.packlist Appending installation info to C:\Perl\lib/perllocal.pod c:\temp_check\exiftool\exiftool\Image-ExifTool-6.98>

end of screenshots
Using the PPM> Console the query * command allways displays an older version 5.25 of ExifTool
15. HTML-Tree [3.18] HTML syntax tree builder 16. Image-ExifTool [5.25] Read and write meta information in images 17. IO-Zlib [0.26] IO:: style interface to Compress::Zlib
Then I uninstalled Image-ExifTool v.5.25 and ran the same procedure (1-4) as above.
But I am still getting the same error messages (no change).
I am doing something wrong here?
Hope you can help and look forward to your reply on how to properly build ExifTool into the Perl environment.
The reason that I need the Perl installation is that I am also running gpsPhoto.pl that requires your Exif-Tool in Perl.

With kind regards, Hans.

Environment:
Windows XP fully updated.
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