I need to move my library (not the music) to my new computer.

I have spent years working and organizing and do not want to start over. 
I already have all my music on exHD but the library.itl file is non-existant and I cannot figure out how to create it. 
I did try to export library but it created a xml file. 
I have all the music in my music not in an Itunes file because I have so much.  Can someone please help me!!!

See this post. The list of non-fatal maneuvers with the library works whether or not you let iTunes organize your media folder, but making it properly portable does require that all the media is within a single root folder. If you can arrange for all the media to have the same path on the new system then you just need to copy over the library files.
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