Hello Phil,
I am developing a C++ application on a Win 7 system, that works with Exiftool via pipes (-stay_open option), and during all tests I always used the windows exiftool.exe file.
Now I started also to test it against the Perl library.
Somewhere on your internet pages it is stated that only Perl 5.004 (or higher) has to be used.
So I installed CitrusPerl 5.16.3 for my tests. (I used this version because a friend had good experiences with it).
But I have seen the following differences: E.g.: Extracting embedded thumbnails of *.jpg images for all files in a directory.
In case of the directory name contains an unicode character
- Exiftool.exe works as expected but
- Perl.exe exiftool.pl gives the following error message: Could not open directory <dir>.
Because of this, I think that I need an/some additional Perl package(s) to avoid this error message.
Is it ok e.g. to install latest version of ActiveState Perl, because (as far as I know) Exiftool uses it.
Or are also additional packages neccessary?
Thanks for your hints in advance.
Best regards
Herb
Hi Herb,
Yes, you must install some optional Perl packages to get this to work. See the README file for details.
- Phil
Hello Phil,
thanks for your quick reply.
I will try to learn more secrets of Perl.
Best regards
Herb