[Koha-devel] Re: Native Koha 3 Support for Win32 Installation Project

[Chris Nighswonger]

Update:

The remaining perl module count is down to ~3. I was able to
successfully install XML::Dumper and XML::RSS tonight. For details see
the following wiki page:

http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:installation:win32:koha_3_win32_installer_project

Regards,
Chris

On Jan 23, 2008 11:15 AM, Chris Nighswonger
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>  Some time back in December I started toying with installing Koha 3
> on Windows XP using the Koha installer and Strawberry Perl 5.8.8.
> Several have asked about it so here is the latest. The attached Open
> Office document gives more grueling details.
>  I made some modifications to Makefile.PL to detect the Win32
> platform and went to work installing the required Perl modules. The
> larger part of them installed fine via cpan, but a half dozen or so
> did not. With Galen Charlton's help, I have made some progress. There
> are five (six w/Schedule::AT) modules which are yet to be
> compiled/installed on Win32 using Strawberry (versions may be bad due
> to an old copy of Makefile.PL):
>
> [Wed Jan 23 06:58:50 2008] Makefile.PL: Warning: prerequisite
> DBD::mysql 3.0008 not found.
> [Wed Jan 23 06:58:56 2008] Makefile.PL: Warning: prerequisite
> MARC::File::XML 0.88 not found.
> [Wed Jan 23 06:59:11 2008] Makefile.PL: Warning: prerequisite
> XML::Dumper 0.81 not found.
> [Wed Jan 23 06:59:11 2008] Makefile.PL: Warning: prerequisite
> XML::LibXSLT 1.63 not found.
> [Wed Jan 23 06:59:11 2008] Makefile.PL: Warning: prerequisite XML::RSS
> 1.31 not found.
>
> I *think* that XML::Dumper and XML::RSS will install once XML::LibXSLT
> is installed.
>
> Zebra remains to be installed and tested.
>
> The attachements to this email include:
>
> 1. A document detailing what I have accomplished so far.
> 2. Two files references in the document.
>
> This is very much a side project for me as I really have no interest
> in running Koha 3 on Win32 except to say I did it. :-)
> Any help would be greatly appriciated. Maybe someone out there with a
> lot of C++ experience can get libxslt working as this is the real
> blocker right now.
> Comments and criticisms welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
> PS. I plan on adding the included summary to the wiki so that anyone
> can update it as work progresses.
>
> --
> Chris Nighswonger
> Faculty Member
> Network & Systems Director
> Foundations Bible College & Seminary
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