Win32-OLE installation issue

Posted on 2005-05-31 00:06:35-07 by moondancer

To Win32-OLE folk, When attempting to install the Win32-OLE library at "http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/libwin32-0.24/" on Fedora 3, I ran: #perl Makefile.PL I receive the following stdout: [root@localhost libwin32-0.24]# perl Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for Win32API::File Writing Makefile for Win32API::Net Writing Makefile for Win32API::Registry Writing Makefile for Win32::ChangeNotify Writing Makefile for Win32::Clipboard Writing Makefile for Win32::Console Writing Makefile for Win32::Event Writing Makefile for Win32::EventLog Writing Makefile for Win32::File Writing Makefile for Win32::FileSecurity Writing Makefile for Win32::IPC Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: ':nosearch' Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: 'wininet.lib' Writing Makefile for Win32::Internet Writing Makefile for Win32::Job Writing Makefile for Win32::Mutex Writing Makefile for Win32::NetAdmin Writing Makefile for Win32::NetResource Writing Makefile for Win32::ODBC Writing Makefile for Win32::OLE Writing Makefile for Win32::PerfLib Writing Makefile for Win32::Pipe ERROR from evaluation of /usr/local/lib/libwin32-0.24/Process/Makefile.PL: Undefined subroutine &Win32::IsWinNT called at ./Makefile.PL line 4. [root@localhost libwin32-0.24]# I am a bit confused as to the way around this issue. The only thing that I found on GOOGLE was something from cygwin, but I don't think that that applies as I am not using cygwin. If you have any suggestions, I would appreciate hearing from you. Thank you for your kind assistance, Moondancer (an old Indian handle)

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Posted on 2005-05-31 15:26:58-07 by exiftool in response to 518

Re: Win32-OLE installation issue

I'm not an expert at problems in the Perl make system, but you don't need to do this to install and run ExifTool:

I'm not sure what the problem is, but the CPAN testers have successfully installed ExifTool on Win32 systems. Do you have problems installing other Perl modules?

At any rate, you can use exiftool without installing: Just run exiftool directly after extracting the tarball.

The only thing that the installation buys you is that it generates the POD documenation and man pages, and installs the libraries in the standard Perl location so you can access them as standard Perl modules. But none of this is required just to run ExifTool, and the included html documentation contains all the information of the POD and man pages.

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Posted on 2005-05-31 16:21:07-07 by exiftool in response to 531

Re: Win32-OLE installation issue

Please disregard my last post. I thought I was looking at the Image::ExifTool forum posts, but I wasn't. Sorry.

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