These instructions cover a fresh install of Guiprep. If you are upgrading, see UPGRADE.md before beginning.

Please direct any help requests to the DP forum PERL: guiprep - Markup extraction and pre-processing toolkit.

See also https://www.pgdp.net/wiki/PPTools/Guiguts/Install (The infrastructure needed for Guiprep is a subset of what is necessary to run Guiguts.)

Using Guiprep on Windows requires installing the following pieces:

• Perl
• Guiprep
• Perl modules

These instructions walk you through using Strawberry Perl. Strawberry Perl is the recommended Perl interpreter as that is what the developers have tested, it supports the latest version of Perl, and includes all necessary Perl modules. It can coexist along side other interpreters.

If you have an existing Perl distribution installed (including if you are hoping to use the Perl distributed with a previous release of other tools), read Other Perl distributions before following the Recommended installation procedure below, as it describes edits you may need to make if not using the standard setup. If following the standard procedure below, there is no need to remove your old version of Guiprep - it should continue to use its own bundled Perl.

Unless you are confident with editing .bat files and altering the system PATH variable, please use the recommended instructions and directory names below.

Note that you must do step 6, even if you have done it previously, as the version of Guiprep you are installing may require additional Perl modules to any previous versions.

1. Download Strawberry Perl.
2. Double click the downloaded file to install Strawberry Perl. It is recommended that you install in the default folder c:\Strawberry.
3. Download the latest release (the zip file) from the Guiprep releases page.
4. Unzip guiprep zip file to some location on your computer (double click the zip file). A common place for this is c:\guiprep although it can be placed anywhere.
5. Using File Explorer, navigate to the guiprep folder you unzipped earlier.
6. Double click the file install_cpan_modules.pl. This should display a command window listing the Perl modules as it installs them. Note that this can take several minutes to complete. If instead, Windows says it does not know how to run that file, or it opens the file in a text editor like Notepad, you will need to re-associate .pl files with the Perl program/app. Follow the steps in the footnote below¹, then return to re-try this step.
7. Double click the run_guiprep.bat file in the same folder, and Guiprep should start up and be ready for use.
8. See the Guiguts Windows Installation wiki page for information on installing an image viewer to display scans during search or header and footer removal. Aspell is not used by this program.

1. Right-click install_cpan_modules.pl in File Explorer, and choose Open with.
2. Choose More apps (may say "Choose Default Program" on some systems)
3. Scroll to the bottom then choose Look for another app on this PC (may say "Browse" on some systems)
4. Navigate to c:\Strawberry\perl\bin and choose perl.exe.
5. Return to re-attempt the "Double-click install_cpan_modules.pl" step.

This section is for advanced users only. Most Guiprep Windows users should follow the Recommended installation procedure above and can skip this section.

When installing the Perl modules, either with the helper script or manually running cpanm, ensure that the Strawberry Perl versions of perl and cpanm are the ones being run. Both programs have a --version argument you can use to see which version of perl is being run. Ensure the version matches that of Strawberry Perl you installed. Note that ActiveState Perl puts its directories at the front of the path and Strawberry Perl puts its directories at the end of the path.

If you have multiple Perl distributions installed you should edit the run_guiguts.bat file and adjust the PATH to the version you want to run Guiguts. The batch file prepends the default Strawberry Perl directories to the path and will preferentially use it if available. If your setup is complex, it may be easiest to clear your path in run_guiguts.bat before directories are added. To do this, directly below the line which saves your existing path, set OLDPATH=%PATH% add the following line set PATH=

Other Perl distributions, such as ActiveState Perl, may be used to run Guiprep after installing additional Perl modules. Note that ActiveState Perl versions after 5.10 will not successfully install Tk and cannot be used with Guiprep.

The bundled perl interpreter included with Guiguts 1.0.25 may also work but is no longer maintained. The bundled perl includes the required modules used in 1.0.25 which may not be the full set needed by later versions. Many Guiprep users installed Guiguts first and relied on the Perl bundled with Guiguts. There may be a technique for running Guiprep under the Perl bundled with older versions of Guiguts, however it is not recommended, and will not be documented here.

I don't know if Guiprep will work on MacOS, but if it works it will be analogous to the way Guiguts runs on MacOS. What follows is the instructions for running Guiguts on MacOS, but adapted to Guiprep.

To use Guiprep you need to be running macOS High Sierra (10.13) or higher. Running Guiprep on MacOS requires installing the following pieces of software. The list may seem intimidating but it's rather straightforward and only needs to be done once. These instructions walk you through it.

• Guiprep code
• Xcode Command Line Tools
• Homebrew
• Perl & Perl modules
• XQuartz

This is necessary because the version of Perl that comes with MacOS does not have the necessary header files to build the Perl package dependencies that Guiprep requires.

Download and unzip the most recent guiprep distribution zip file from the Guiprep releases page to some location on your computer (double click the zip file in Finder). You can move the guiprep directory it creates to anywhere you want. A common place for this is your home directory.

Homebrew requires either the Xcode Command Line Tools or full Xcode. If you have the full Xcode installed, skip this step. Otherwise, install the Xcode Command Line tools by opening Terminal.app and running:

xcode-select --install

Homebrew is a package manager for MacOS that provides the version of Perl and relevant Perl modules that Guiprep needs. To install it, your user account must have Administrator rights on the computer.

Open Terminal.app and install Homebrew with:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

You will be prompted for your password and walked through the installation. You can accept the defaults it presents to you.

Using Terminal.app, use Homebrew to install Perl and cpanm:

brew install perl
brew pin perl
brew install cpanm

Close Terminal.app and reopen it to ensure that the brew-installed perl is on your path. Then install all the necessary Perl modules. This is most easily done by running the helper script:

perl install_cpan_modules.pl

XQuartz is an X11 windows manager. If you don't have it installed already, you can either download and install it manually via the link or install it with Homebrew using:

brew cask install xquartz

After you install XQuartz, you must log out and back in before Guiprep can use it as the X11 server.

Start Guiprep with:

perl guiprep.pl &

Guiprep does not use any of the "Helper applications" that Guiguts uses.

For other platforms, you will need to install Perl and the necessary Perl modules. Then extract the Guiprep directory and run

perl guiprep.pl

This section is for advanced users who want to run the latest in-development version of Guiprep and are comfortable with git.

You can run Guiguts directly from the git repo with no significant changes.

1. Clone the Guiguts repo somewhere.
2. Install the necessary system dependencies (perl, perl modules, etc) as specified in the sections above.

You can now run Guiprep from the top level directory.

Guiguts requires the following Perl modules to be installed via CPAN. Guiprep requires some of these, but possibly not all of them. For compatibility, we install all of them.

• Tk
• Tk::ToolBar
• Text::LevenshteinXS
• File::Which
• Image::Size
• LWP::UserAgent
• WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C
• XML::XPath

The required Perl modules can be installed with the included helper script:

perl install_cpan_modules.pl

Or you can install them individually using cpanm. For example:

cpanm --notest --install LWP::UserAgent