[Tilesathome] T at H - install on Windows XP

[Stuart]

Chaps

A little bit of progress

ActivePerl suggests the *.pl extension is automatically associated with perl.exe - that didn't happen so updated it manually so now when I double click on tah.pl the previously mention GUI opens. It still does not run from the Start Menu link though.

There is also a ppm which I couldn't run before. Got it working and installed the 5.8.8 files as indicated on web page.

In summary
The Start Menu link still doesn't work and I don't really know what to do with the GUI.
I suspect that this may be to use my PC as a processor for Osmarendering for the greater good rather than my own experimental setup.

Cheers
 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stuart 
  To: tilesathome at openstreetmap.org 
  Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:25 PM
  Subject: [Tilesathome] T at H - install on Windows XP


  Hi,

  I'm running through the process on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Windows@home

  I've download  setuptah-0_1.exe and it appears to run succesfully.

  At the final stage there is a picture (possibly in Italian) showing a GUI presumable as a hint to change the language to your own.
  On closing the browser window showing this picture the install GUI highlights the Close button. 

  I then run the app from the Start menu but all I see is a quick flicker on the screen (probably Perl trying to start in a DOS box).

  After a bit of messing around I started Perl from a DOS box as below 


  perl "C:\Program Files\TilesAtHome\tah.pl"

  This runs a GUI showing things like "Proxy Settings" - "Authentication Settings" and buttons to "update tah" and "start tah"



  Not sure if this is the real GUI or a setup window - I plan to run T at H locally to create specific tiles via a modified osmarender process.

  So what settings if any do I need in this window. I've tried using it but to no result (no idea what values to use) and when I close it there are many error messages on the DOS/Perl window including many complaining about the space in C:\Program Files....



  Finally, looking at tah.pl the line



  $ENV{PATH} = "$dirperl\\bin;$dirinkscape;$dirsvn\\bin;$dirpngcrush;$dirzip;$ENV{PATH}";



  suggests that my System Properties Environment Variables may be updated or perhaps $ENV{PATH} is a local variable.

  Is this an issue?

  My guess is a problem with Perl. If I run the perl.exe directly all I see is a blank DOS type window - is there a command to test the Perl?





  Cheers



  Stuart







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