On 20 Jun 2019 at 13:39, MacFH - C E Macfarlane MacFH - C E Macfarlane
wrote:
>
> I think we all have our methods, and I'm not convinced that mine or
> anyone else's is better than other possible methods, but in the
> confusion of suggestions, there is the possibility of important
> information being lost or obscured, which is that both under Linux &
> Windows, the LibXML libraries are a potential deadfall. In Windows,
> especially under 32-bit, you have to do quite a lot of pissing about to
> get LibXML to work with Perl at all - about a year or so ago I posted
> here detailed instructions for installing and running GiP on Win XP,
> previously assumed to be no longer possible, which covered that ground
> and more - and even under Linux, if you try to configure and compile
> the libraries manually, you may fail. As many have suggested, in Linux
> the easiest way is to install the relevant packages using apt-get or
> whatever.
>
I run GiP under XP 32 with no problem. iirc all that is needed is to
replace ffmpeg with last XP compat version
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