How do I install XML::LibXML for ActivePerl?

Question

I am new to Perl and I am using ActivePerl. I am getting the following error:

Can't locate XML/LibXML.pm in @INC...

I have tried everything but cannot find the steps to install the "correct" module for XML::LibXML.

Here is exactly what is going on. I am running a script from a command prompt:

c:\temp>perl myscript.pl

The first few lines of myscript.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS );
use HTTP::Date;
use XML::Parser;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use XML::LibXML;
use Archive::Extract;
use Encode;
use LWP::Simple;

require HTTP::Request;
...

Then I get this error:

c:\temp>perl myscript.pl Can't locate XML/LibXML.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .) at myscript.pl line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at myscript.pl line 7

Solution 1

You should be able to install it with the ActivePerl Perl Package Manager. There should have been a start menu shortcut created when you installed ActivePerl, start the GUI and search for xml-libxml and libxml-perl.

--edit

Here's a post on adding an alternative repository to PPM and installing XML-LibXML

Solution 2

It doesn't look like ActiveState provide a PPM with XML::LibXML. I looked in the README for the module on CPAN and apparently a prebuild ppm package is available here.

Solution 3

I have recently been through the pains of getting XML::LibXML installed. Here is what I found:

1. We are using ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8.8
2. In order for ActivePerl's PPM to get through our proxy, had to create an environment variable "http_proxy" with value "http://proxy.ext.[example].com", then re-login.
3. The required packages weren't all located in ActiveState's repository. Added University of Winnipeg's Perl Repository http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/package.xml (note that the exact repository used depends on your version of ActivePerl)
4. Manually install the following DLLs into C:\perl\bin\ (for whatever reason, I was having some trouble building these DLLs, so I ended up simply grabbing them from the repository at http://trouchelle.com/ppm/dll/ )
   • iconv.dll
   • libxml2.dll
   • zlib1.dll
5. At least for the version of XML-LibXML we are using, the package installer doesn't work correctly for the prerequisite XML-LibXML-Common. You MUST install the package XML-LibXML-Common by itself, BEFORE installing the rest of XML-LibXML.

Although they may not be the latest versions, the versions of the packages (including prerequisites) which I am currently using are:

• XML-LibXML-Common (ver 0.13)
• XML-LibXML (ver 1.64)
• XML-NamespaceSupport (ver 1.10)
• XML-SAX (ver 0.96)

Solution 4

Accepted answer didn't work for me on 5.16. From this question:

XML::LibXML was not ready for Perl 5.16. Install 5.14

Download:

• ActivePerl
• StrawberryPerl

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Comments

[Jamey McElveen]

Thanks, But I installed "libxml-perl" from the "ActivePerl Package Manager" and I still get the same error. I checked the details and that package does not install LibXML.pm Here is a screen shot bit.ly/cf3av

[robertc]

Try searching for xml-libxml.

[Jamey McElveen]

Nope nothing is coming up... I added some more details to the question. thanks!

[MikeEL]

This package is currently available with the package manager: I just installed it.

[laurentngu]

I have the same issue today. Did you just copy those 3 .dll in the folder C:\Perl\bin\ ? Using search from ppm, it only returns libxml-perl [0.08] libxml-perl

[Dhir Pratap]

above link is 503 error for me, but sources available from cpan here search.cpan.org/perldoc?XML%3A%3ALibXML

[Dhir Pratap]

xml-libxml does not install a LibXML.pm for me. Using ActivePerl 5.16 and PPM 4.17. Unfortunately the theoryx5 repo in the forum link returns 503 errors.

[Dhir Pratap]

Apparently there's no LibXML.pm on 5.16. See my answer below for fix.

[sn00gan]

Yes, I just copied those 3 DLLs which I described.