Re: ipe on Windows with TeXLive on Cygwin

Kostas,

Did you ever solve this?


On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:34 PM, OIKONOMOU, KOSTAS N (KOSTAS N) <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
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