philipashlock
patch needed to run under Windows
Nice job, took me a few tries to get it working under Windows 7. The Pandoc PHP wrapper , Copyright (c) Ryan Kadwell [email protected], appears to be written with *nix in mind, and fails under Windows. Specifically, is searches for the path to pandoc using "which" and "is_executable" that, in my case, failed gracefully, so I could discover where to comment out the code running the checks.
Also, the instructions say to run "php composer.phar install" that results in an error. The solution, as per stack-exchange question, is to run "composer install", if the PATH is set correctly and loaded.
Can I suggest a simple comment in the instructions to say "tested under (whatever), may need some googling and light hacking to work under Windows", while somebody comes up with a better fix for the wrapper.
Hi, what exactly did you do do get it running under Windows? I'm trying to do a tutorial on how to convert MediaWiki pages to use them in a Gitlab Wiki and want to show a way how to do it under Windows (because not everyone has a Linux system at hand). Thanks! Regards, dansou901
If it helps anyone, I have just forked to use docker (so that we can use it on windows as well) mediawiki-to-markdown
Could not get docker working so I did the following quick hack for windows 10.
In file \mediawiki-to-gfm\vendor\ryakad\pandoc-php\src\Pandoc\Pandoc.php I changed:
// Since we can not validate that the command that they give us is
// *really* pandoc we will just check that its something.
// If the provide no path to pandoc we will try to find it on our own
if ( ! $executable) {
exec('which pandoc', $output, $returnVar);
if ($returnVar === 0) {
$this->executable = $output[0];
} else {
throw new PandocException('Unable to locate pandoc');
}
} else {
$this->executable = $executable;
}
if ( ! is_executable($this->executable)) {
throw new PandocException('Pandoc executable is not executable');
}
To
// Since we can not validate that the command that they give us is
// *really* pandoc we will just check that its something.
// If the provide no path to pandoc we will try to find it on our own
if ( ! $executable) {
//exec('which pandoc', $output, $returnVar);
$returnVar = 0;
if ($returnVar === 0) {
//just input your path to pandoc exe
$this->executable = 'c:/Pandoc/pandoc.exe';
} else {
throw new PandocException('Unable to locate pandoc');
}
} else {
$this->executable = $executable;
}
/*if ( ! is_executable($this->executable)) {
throw new PandocException('Pandoc executable is not executable');
}*/
