[publican-list] Publican on Windows: How to Install 4.3.2?

[Jeff Fearn]

On 14/10/15 19:06, Erich Steinböck wrote:
> (sorry if this comes in as a new thread - I've found no way to reply, as
> the mailing list copies me neither on my own post nor on the answer)
> 
> Thanks Jeff for your answer.  I'm still interested in going to the latest
> Publican version, as
> 1. others may build these docs on Linux (then presumable using Publican
> 4.3) and I'd rather have the same issues (if any) as everyone else, and not
> something that may be due to me using 3.0, and
> 2. I'm also seeing issues (like svg image scaling in the HTML build) that
> might have been already addressed in the newer versions

If you are using FOP then it's unlikely anything has been fixed as we
deprecated it's use and focused on getting wkhtmltopdf to work.

> Do you think, that simply updating Windows-3.0-installer files with files
> for a Linux distribution is possible at all?

Last time I tried building the exe it got stuck bundling the libraries
in to the exe. It's possible that just needs to be configured properly
to run. I'll give it another shot soon so I can at least be more
specific with the issues.

> If yes, any suggestions, what I should do / shouldn't do?

In the git repo is a README file with a section on building on Windows,
it's probably embarrassingly out of date, and you can probably skip some
configuration if you aren't pushing back to the repo.

It is based on building the exe, it's probably possible to install it in
to a system perl (I use strawberry) but I've never really tested that on
Windows as it's not the way things are done there :)

> If successful, I'd be willing to post a step-by-step How-To for others who
> might want to do the same.
> 
> Regards, Erich
> 
>> From: Jeff Fearn <jfearn redhat com>
>> To: Publican discussions <publican-list redhat com>
>> Subject: Re: [publican-list] Publican on Windows: How to Install 4.3.2?
>> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:43:07 +1000
>> Hi Erich, we haven't spent much time on the Windows build for quite some
>> time as there wasn't any demand. FWIW updating versions won't change the
>> number of warnings FOP generates, it does that on every platform
>> regardless of FOP, DocBook, or Publican versions.
>> Cheers, Jeff.
> 
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