exiftool not found

[pdophoto]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to install exiftool to Perl on windows 10,  but I get the followig: "dmake.exe:  Error: -- `exiftool' not found, and can't be made"
I tryed it with Exiftool.pl & lib in C:\, C:/ & C:/windows (Both are in the path).

Is there a "Magic Formula" that will solve this problem and go to the parent problem?

Any comment will be greatly appraciated.

Pierre

[StarGeek]

Shows you what I know, I never read the README file.  I always just extracted the lib directory in the main perl archive to the lib directory in whatever flavor of perl I was using.

What brand of Perl are you using?  I have Strawberry and when I tried dmake, it told me to use gmake instead.  So I CD'ed to the exiftool directory, ran the commands in the README, replacing make with gmake, and it seemed to install fine.

That said, if all else fails, you might try just extracting the lib directory from the archive to the lib directory in perl.

[pdophoto]

Hi StarGeek

thanks for your reply.

I am trying to use ActiveState version 5.24.3.2404 (as suggested) so I can install ImagePerl and see if I can resolve my problem with photoshop that can't read some data in a lot of my photos.

I am not knowledged in perl programming, the last time I did some was about 30 years ago for Autocad. So I am following the README instructions.

So, is there a way to tell dmake where exiftool is located.

Pierre

[StarGeek]

Assuming you downloaded the latest, did you CD into the Image-ExifTool-11.10 directory and run from there?

Do you actually need to use the Perl version or could you use the Windows exiftool.exe executable instead?

[pdophoto]

I did downloaded the last version and cd to the exiftool directory

I really don't know if I need the perl version or the good old exe version.

My purpose is to try to find which metadatas are unreadable by photoshop 2018 and try to repair the damage done by ??
I have used exiftool for so many years but not as a command line program. I use it with ExifMixer and with ExiftoolGUI so I am not very good to compose commands.

Well I will use exiftool.exe  and try to getallgroups, getalltags to check for errors.

[StarGeek]

Yeah, unless you have need of the perl version and plan on rolling your own perl scripts, it's just easier to use the executable.

To see if you can find the problem, you can try
exiftool -validate FileOrDir

[pdophoto]

Thank you so much,

I did not know "-validate", this will do the job

Thanks again for the info and your time

Regards,
Pierre