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Originally Posted by chrisridd
It definitely isn't ideal, but have you tried using WINE to run the converter.exe? WINE is supposed to even work on Apple Silicon Macs, though last time I tried it (with something else) it failed miserably.
As you say it is hopefully a one-time job, but until someone reverse engineers the Windows .exe I think that's the best you can do.
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I have a Windows system.
Eventually I downloaded a dictionary for KOReader which are in the required XML format for converter.exe to ingest, and voila, I have a good enough Russian-English dictionary for my Pocketbook with a simple one line command.
I could not get a Perl environment set up on the Windows system to use that conversion script (which is supposed to ingest Stardict XML format, Kindleunpack HTML). I was trying Windows subsystem for Linux, with Wine, but could not get the required additional perl library dependencies to install.
Once I realized the KOReader dictionaries were a better starting point for this little project I gave up trying to get the Perl script to run.