Mobiperl Mobiperl - Perl tools for handling MobiPocket files

[tompe]

Originally Posted by Gudy

Buh? I believe that something about your Perl install is well and truly b0rked.

I certainly don't have Zlib.pm at that location...

Thanks for the binaries. Hopefully they work...

Maybe I should remove the copy thing in the Makefile. It was a convenient way to ge the binaries in the path. is there a location that always exists that i can copy binaries to so it works for other people?

I have not seen the error message about missing files either. I guess that ithe problem is that Par-Packer-588 did not install properly.

[Gudy]

Originally Posted by tompe

Thanks for the binaries. Hopefully they work...

I only tried mobi2html.exe on one file downloaded from here (the Sherlock Holmes omnibus), and it seemed to work.

Originally Posted by tompe

Maybe I should remove the copy thing in the Makefile. It was a convenient way to get the binaries in the path. is there a location that always exists that i can copy binaries to so it works for other people?

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\Sy stem32\Wbem

are always there, but I would not advise copying things there. %SystemRoot% is essentially C:\Windows on most systems. If you absolutely must copy things into the Path, make it a separate make target "install" depending on the "all" target, and copy things to C:\Perl\bin, the default location of ActiveState's Perl installation, which their installer also puts in the Path.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by Gudy

If you absolutely must copy things into the Path, make it a separate make target "install" depending on the "all" target, and copy things to C:\Perl\bin, the default location of ActiveState's Perl installation, which their installer also puts in the Path.

I must be tired. Of course I can do a seperate target and I can run it manually when I need it. The Makefile is now changed so it works out of the box in the next release.

I also copied the binaries file to the web page.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Now I get the following error...

Can't locate IO/Compress/Gzip.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/perl/site/lib C:/perl/lib .) at C:/perl/site/lib/Compress/Zlib.pm line 13.

Where do I get this?

If you show us all the output from when you run "nmake all" to the error message maybe somebody will have some idea about what can be wrong.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by tompe

Thanks for the binaries. Hopefully they work...

Maybe I should remove the copy thing in the Makefile. It was a convenient way to ge the binaries in the path. is there a location that always exists that i can copy binaries to so it works for other people?

I have not seen the error message about missing files either. I guess that ithe problem is that Par-Packer-588 did not install properly.

The problem is that Par-Packer is written for a different 5.8.8 build of ActivePerl. So the problem is that until things are sorted, it wont work.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by tompe

If you show us all the output from when you run "nmake all" to the error message maybe somebody will have some idea about what can be wrong.

I believe the rest of the errors have to do with the Gzlib.pm not being where it should be. So what I posted I believe is what the error is that needs to be fixed.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The problem is that Par-Packer is written for a different 5.8.8 build of ActivePerl. So the problem is that until things are sorted, it wont work.

OK, I wrote previosly that you have to match versions carefully a thing I spent a lot of time finding out... It is also possible to install a new version of ActivePerl without uninstalling the old. The new one will get a new menu subentry and will be placed first in the path.

[Gudy]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The problem is that Par-Packer is written for a different 5.8.8 build of ActivePerl. So the problem is that until things are sorted, it wont work.

If this is indeed the problem, it should be easily fixable: either you have the wrong Perl version or the wrong PAR-Packer version.

As for Perl: the most recent distribution (822) does not work, you need to download ActivePerl-5.8.8.820-MSWin32-x86-274739 (either the zip or the msi, I recommend the latter) from the archive of old versions.

After you have uninstalled the previous Perl version, install this one, then re-install all the packages listed on the Mobiperl site.

As for the PAR-Packer, as I wrote previously, there are two versions of that displayed in the Perl Package Manager when you add the UWinnipeg repository and then search for PAR-Packer. You need PAR-Packer-588 (version 0.973). Uninstall all other versions, then install this one.

[mateo]

I searched and couldn't find mention of this, but on the Kindle, using books converted with html2mobi, I sometimes get an error "unexpected error" that takes me back to my homepage. It's a minor inconvenience, because I can then go back and open up the book and it will work. I've only noticed the problem when opening a book or when going to the cover. It doesn't happen just by turning the pages. Like I said, it's a minor inconvenience but I thought I'd just let you know about it anyways.

[darkninja]

I wrote a decompressor, mobihuff.py, for the new huffdic compressed files. Maybe this code can be incorporated into mobiperl?

Note. This program does not break any DRM encryption, so it's not illegal. It just decompresses files compressed with the new compression into a raw html file.

Thanks to Igor Skochinsky for the valuable assistance.

http://pastebin.com/m2360435c

[tompe]

Originally Posted by darkninja

I wrote a decompressor, mobihuff.py, for the new huffdic compressed files. Maybe this code can be incorporated into mobiperl?

Note. This program does not break any DRM encryption, so it's not illegal. It just decompresses files compressed with the new compression into a raw html file.

I am a bit worried about what status the code would have. Is translating to other languages enough to eliminate copyright concerns? Could I distribute the code I write under GPL3? To get a clean room implementaion the ideal thing would be for me to have a written description of the algorithm...

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by Gudy

If you absolutely must copy things into the Path, make it a separate make target "install" depending on the "all" target, and copy things to C:\Perl\bin, the default location of ActiveState's Perl installation, which their installer also puts in the Path.

Might want to check that exists, first. On my machine, the boot drive is normally D:, and Perl is in D:\Perl\Bin. (I dual booted Win2K and XP, and C: is the 2K drive.)
______
Dennis

[JSWolf]

tompe did you know that mobi2html can strip the images out of a DRM Mobi eBook? I ran it on such by accident and I got an empty html file, but the images were fine.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

tompe did you know that mobi2html can strip the images out of a DRM Mobi eBook? I ran it on such by accident and I got an empty html file, but the images were fine.

Yes. The fixing of image size is based on this. Only the text is DRM:ed.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by darkninja

I wrote a decompressor, mobihuff.py, for the new huffdic compressed files. Maybe this code can be incorporated into mobiperl?

Note. This program does not break any DRM encryption, so it's not illegal. It just decompresses files compressed with the new compression into a raw html file.

Thanks to Igor Skochinsky for the valuable assistance.

http://pastebin.com/m2360435c

Produces empty output for the attached mobi file. Generated using mobigen -c2 -s0 on linux.