[Tilesathome] Windows installation

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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Tino Miegel schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> i had it running fine on Vista until a few days ago, but at the moment
> win32 is no go, because the perl-scripts generates many many temporary
> files while rendering, and the whole deleting process doesn't work on
> win.
> 
> All i had to do was installing inkscape, ActivePerl 5.8.8, pngcrush
> and xmlstarlet, the required perl packages and putting the right paths
> into tilesAtHome.conf.
> The only change in the code was in compress.pl that it uses 7.zip,
> i've attached a diff.

You might want to try the current svn :)
(IOW thanks for the patch).

> Forking was no go (neither rendering, nor uploading) and the script
> always stopped with an error in loop-mode after rendering some tiles,
> but apart from this it worked.
> 
> At the moment i am trying to get t at g running again on windows, i've
> installed a Perl-Plugin in Eclipse so i can debug the code. But with
> no perl experience it is rather difficult to get around the whole
> temp-file-creation/deletion bugs...

I have no Idea why unlink() doesn't work like it should.

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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