I am new to Perl and I am using ActivePerl.
I am getting the following error:
Can't locate XML/LibXML.pm in @INC...
I have tried everything but cannot find the steps to install the "correct" module for XML::LibXML.
Here is exactly what is going on. I am running a script from a command prompt:
c:\temp>perl myscript.pl
The first few lines of myscript.pl:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS );
use HTTP::Date;
use XML::Parser;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use XML::LibXML;
use Archive::Extract;
use Encode;
use LWP::Simple;
require HTTP::Request;
...
Then I get this error:
c:\temp>perl myscript.pl Can't locate
XML/LibXML.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .) at
myscript.pl line 7. BEGIN
failed--compilation aborted at
myscript.pl line 7
You should be able to install it with the ActivePerl Perl Package Manager. There should have been a start menu shortcut created when you installed ActivePerl, start the GUI and search for xml-libxml and libxml-perl.
--edit
Here's a post on adding an alternative repository to PPM and installing XML-LibXML
It doesn't look like ActiveState provide a PPM with XML::LibXML. I looked in the README for the module on CPAN and apparently a prebuild ppm package is available here.
I have recently been through the pains of getting XML::LibXML installed. Here is what I found:
- We are using ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8.8
- In order for ActivePerl's PPM to get through our proxy, had to create an environment variable "http_proxy" with value "http://proxy.ext.[example].com", then re-login.
- The required packages weren't all located in ActiveState's repository. Added University of Winnipeg's Perl Repository http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/package.xml (note that the exact repository used depends on your version of ActivePerl)
- Manually install the following DLLs into C:\perl\bin\ (for whatever reason, I was having some trouble building these DLLs, so I ended up simply grabbing them from the repository at http://trouchelle.com/ppm/dll/ )
- iconv.dll
- libxml2.dll
- zlib1.dll
- At least for the version of XML-LibXML we are using, the package installer doesn't work correctly for the prerequisite XML-LibXML-Common. You MUST install the package XML-LibXML-Common by itself, BEFORE installing the rest of XML-LibXML.
Although they may not be the latest versions, the versions of the packages (including prerequisites) which I am currently using are:
- XML-LibXML-Common (ver 0.13)
- XML-LibXML (ver 1.64)
- XML-NamespaceSupport (ver 1.10)
- XML-SAX (ver 0.96)
Accepted answer didn't work for me on 5.16. From this question:
XML::LibXML was not ready for Perl 5.16. Install 5.14
Download:
- ActivePerl
- StrawberryPerl
In the end I found the only alternative ActivePerl repository in existence, as far as I can tell, and it had a package for XML::LibXML 2.0121 which will install on perl versions up to 5.20.x.
You can obtain releases of ActivePerl from here that includes 5.20.2: downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/releases/
The alternative repository is called Bribes de Perl at bribes.org/perl/
The URL of the repository that is entered in options is http://bribes.org/perl/ppm/