Re: ipe on Windows with TeXLive on Cygwin
"OIKONOMOU, KOSTAS N (KOSTAS N)" <[email protected]>
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On 8/16/2015 10:35 PM, Otfried Cheong wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015, at 23:38, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: >> I have Ipe 7.1.8 for/on Windows 7. I also have Cygwin with a TeXlive >> 2015 installation. >> But I can't make ipe work with this TeXlive. It insists that it can't >> find "pdflatex". >> I tried adding c:\cygwin64\bin to the Windows PATH, but it doesn't help. > I don't see any reason why this should not work, but you probably need > to investigate more systematically. > > 1) Open a Windows Command shell (Windows+R and type CMD), and check that > you can run "pdflatex". Something strange is going on. (I don't understand Windows, I'm using it only because I have to). In File Explorer, I can see \cygwin64\bin\pdflatex System File) and pdftex.exe (Application). Yet in the Windows command shell, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Windows\System32>\cygwin64\bin\pdflatex '\cygwin64\bin\pdflatex' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\Windows\System32>\cygwin64\bin\pdftex Access is denied. C:\Windows\System32>\cygwin64\bin\pdftex.exe Access is denied. C:\Windows\System32>\cygwin64\bin\ls <long output> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > I've just tried this on my Windows computer: In a CMD shell, I can run > \cygwin\bin\ls without adding anything to my path. > > 2) Once you have this working, go to the Ipe Latex directory (check Help > -> Show configuration - In my case this is > C:\Users\otfried\AppData\Local\Ipe). This directory will contain a > batch file "runlatex.bat". Check that you can execute this batch file > from a Windows command shell. > > Cheers, > Otfried > > _______________________________________________ > Ipe-discuss mailing list > Ipe-discuss-rGrgPyRx506NN8uzcEdRPYRWq/[email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/ipe-discuss _______________________________________________ Ipe-discuss mailing list Ipe-discuss-rGrgPyRx506NN8uzcEdRPYRWq/[email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/ipe-discuss