vs_plg_to_bin.pl script not accepting .plg files?

[Anonymous]

I’m trying to convert a .plg from one of the VLSI patch ZIPs to a binary just like the rest of the .053 plugins, but the perl script provided isn’t accepting any .plg I give to it. I’m a noob to Perl, but I installed “DWIM Perl” and I’m running the vs_plg_to_bin.pl script from the perl command line using the same argument syntax as in the provided batch file in the plugins folder provided with the SFEMP3 library:

vs_plg_to_bin.pl  c:\vs1053b-patches.plg  c:\output.053

It keeps reaching the “Need input file”. Which is the first line in the script that I don’t know how to interpret:

my $inF = $ARGV[0] or die “Need input file.\n”;

It seems simple enough, how could I be messing this up?

 

 

[Michael P. Flaga]

@ARGV is a system variable that is an array of the arguments passed in. It’s index is zero based. Hence $ARGV[0] is the first argument and [1] is the 2nd, etc…

for some reason your command line is not accepting the arguments. I use Active Perl for windows. It does not really sound like a problem with the script itself. but the local OS’s command line interface calling perl. Perhaps try “perl vs_plg_to_bin.pl patchefl.053” or put quotes around each argument. It may not be being parsed by the command line interpreter.

I was able to re-run them on the latest patches by VLSI and put some of them at https://www.dropbox.com/home/Public/vs1053b-patches230

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the response Michael. Glad you’re still supporting these forums. Any chance you could process and upload the vs1063a-patches-190? I’m experimenting with this updated chip. Apparently the pinout is the exact same so it’s a drop-in replacement.

I’ll keep trying different syntax to get my environment to accept the arguments. Or I’ll just swap out for Active Perl.

 

[Michael P. Flaga]

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[Anonymous]

Thanks Michael.

And you were right about the command line syntax for the DWIM Perl deployment. I needed quotes around the arguments.

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