Re: Problem Installing Poppler Module

In the Makefile.PL I see:

    XS      => {
        'Poppler.xs' => 'Poppler.c',
        'Goo.xs' => 'Goo.c',
    },
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which would indicate that there should be a file called Goo.xs that shipped with the Poppler-0.03 source ... but there's no such file mentioned in the MANIFEST.
Does the source distro contain such a file ? If not try removing 'Goo.xs' => 'Goo.c', from the Makefile.PL, and also change 'OBJECT' => 'Poppler$(OBJ_EXT) Goo$(OBJ_EXT)' , to 'OBJECT' => 'Poppler$(OBJ_EXT)',.
Then remove the Makefile that got written, and start over again with perl Makefile.PL etc.
If Goo.xs is not needed, that might work. In any case submit a bug report to the author.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: Problem Installing Poppler Module by flbiggs (Novice) on Nov 12, 2010 at 15:00 UTC
Rob, Thanks for the advice. I tried the modification suggested. It allowed the module to be made and installed, but when I use it to load a pdf file, it throws an error. So, I think there is some defect in how the wrapper is linking to the underlying library. I now see from CPAN testing reports that testers had the same problem. I emailed the author asking if he would suggest a correction ... I don't have nearly the skills needed to tinker with XS. Hopefully he will address because I think that module would be very useful. Thanks again!	[reply]
Re^3: Problem Installing Poppler Module by flbiggs (Novice) on Nov 15, 2010 at 13:57 UTC
FYI -- The author of this module just posted revised code on module's github repository. I installed the revised module and basic tests were successful.	[reply]