Problem after transition BibTex to [BibLaTex,Biber]

Question

I've been using TexMaker and MikTex under Windows10 for 3-4 months and I managed to convert the short .odt thesis I wanted to submit into a .tex file. For the bibliography, I used Jabref and BibTex.

Now I've considered making the transition to BibLaTex with Biber for a new work requiring the use of Unicode for the bibliography.

However I get an issue which doesn't seem related to the use of Unicode since it persists even with a minimal code. My minimal .tex file is as follows:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[american]{babel}

\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{Biblioessai.bib}

\begin{document}
\autocite{Bau2003}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

My .bib file is the following:

% Encoding: UTF-8

@Book{Bau2003,
title     = {Dictionnaire persan-français, français-persan ordre latin},
publisher = {La Maison du dictionnaire},
year      = {2003},
author    = {Bau, Pierre and Lazard, Gilbert},
address   = {Paris},
isbn      = {2-85608-177-0},
pages     = {1 vol. (XXV-533 p.)},
url       = {http://www.sudoc.fr/075605902},
}

I've configured TexMaker with "biber %" under the Bib(La)Tex field and tried to run multiple times PdfLaTex and Bib(La)Tex alternatively, but it always gives me the following error message:

Process started

lib.pm did not return a true value at -e line 165.

Process exited with error(s)

The .pdf file I get is a one page document containing only "[Bau2003]" on the top; the bibliography doesn't appear. (I feel it may be an unrelated issue but after searching for the whole afternoon I'm a bit confused...)

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

There's a small problem with the pagesfields, which is not relevant (should be pagetotal. Mentioning the number of volumes with the volumes field works only with several volumes (you obtain vols 1…), so I used the note field.

That said, this code compiles for me:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern} %
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{Biblioessai.bib}
@Book{Bau2003,
title = {Dictionnaire persan-français, français-persan ordre latin},
publisher = {La Maison du dictionnaire},
year = {2003},
author = {Bau, Pierre and Lazard, Gilbert},
address = {Paris},
isbn = {2-85608-177-0},
pagetotal = {(xxv  + 533 p.)},
note={1 vol.},
url = {http://www.sudoc.fr/075605902},
}
\end{filecontents}}


\usepackage[american]{babel}

\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{Biblioessai.bib}

\begin{document}

\autocite{Bau2003}
\printbibliography

\end{document}