[Plugin] CustomCleanerPlus

[Leonatus]

O. k. Thank you! I meant the plugin only to produce an epub by a different way. Besides, I'll try to use it on my 64 bit computer anyway.

[JSWolf]

Given that we've had a report of an old version of Sigil that's using Tidy caused significant code loss, I would stay away from any plugin that uses Tidy.

[KevinH]

Tidy itself is an excellent tool and has been completely revamped for html5. But that happened after we had already chosen to go with Google's gumbo parser. So I would not compare the old Tidy used in really old versions of Sigil with Tidy that is available today.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Tidy itself is an excellent tool and has been completely revamped for html5. But that happened after we had already chosen to go with Google's gumbo parser. So I would not compare the old Tidy used in really old versions of Sigil with Tidy that is available today.

What version of Tidy is bundled with the plugin? Is it a new enough version?

[DiapDealer]

Don't worry about it, Jon.

[DiapDealer]

This error is more than likely just a missing C/C++ runtime (MSVCR100.dll). Both of the tidy.dll files included in this plugin are dependent on the MS Visual C/C++ 2010 runtime. Which Microsoft stopped shipping by default with Windows 10. Yay! Many programs might install it along the way, but sometimes a Windows 10 machine can avoid getting it installed altogether if older programs are never installed on it.

The handy-dandy Windows OS error stating that win32/tidy.dll could not be found is actually the same exact error you get when a dependency of win32/tidy.dll cannot be found (in this case: MSVCR100.dll). Handy, I know.

Make sure you get the x86 version of the redistributable runtime for Visual Studio 2010: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...f-95f26a218cc0 and you should be up and running.

Or even more directly: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=26999

[Leonatus]

@DiapDealer: Yes, that was the problem. Now that I installed Visual C/C++ runtime, both the CustomCleaner++ and the Html2Epub plugin work well.
One has to check for updates of Visual C/C++ manually, I suppose?

I think I'll use the plugins frequently, as they produce an epub as I like. Thanks to all!

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Leonatus

@DiapDealer: Yes, that was the problem. Now that I installed Visual C/C++ runtime, both the CustomCleaner++ and the Html2Epub plugin work well.
One has to check for updates of Visual C/C++ manually, I suppose?

I think I'll use the plugins frequently, as they produce an epub as I like. Thanks to all!

There's not likely to be any more updates for the 2010 Visual C/C++ runtime. And starting with Visual Studio 2015, any programs compiled with Visual Studio 2015-2019 will work with the same runtime that comes pre-installed. They seem to have gotten their act together in that regard (finally).

So except for the rare program that needs the Visual 2010 or 2013 runtime, you should be good to go. And most program installers will tell you explicitly what you're lacking. It's only this rare case of including dlls with a python script where something might fall through the cracks. It used to be that Sigil itself would have provided the 2010 runtime for you. But that was back when Sigil was using VS2010 and VS2013 runtimes.

I try to cross compile dlls for scripts like this with MinGW wherever possible to remove any dependencies upon a specific MSVCR version for precisely this reason. But I've ever tried building the newer libtidy-html5, so I don't know if that's easily doable. Glad its working for you now!