Re: install.bat in windows-arm64 not working

Hans Hagen via ntg-context <[email protected]>
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On 4/6/2026 12:30 PM, Thomas Welter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the install script install.bat in the Windows ARM installer (http://lmtx.pragma-ade.nl/install-lmtx/context-windows-arm64.zip) gives the following error on my ARM-Laptop (CPU: Snapdragon X X1-26-100):
> 
> ...
> mtxrun          | the resolver databases are not present or outdated
> mtx-install     | unknown platform
> ...
> 
> .. and the distribution does not get installed.
> 
> After passing the platform to mtxrun directly by changing line 26 in install.bat from
> "%OWNPATH%bin\mtxrun" --script "%OWNPATH%/bin/mtx-install.lua" --update --server=%LMTXSERVER% --instance=%LMTXINSTANCE% --extras="%LMTXEXTRAS%" %*
> 
> to
> "%OWNPATH%bin\mtxrun" --script "%OWNPATH%/bin/mtx-install.lua" --update --platform=%PLATFORM% --server=%LMTXSERVER% --instance=%LMTXINSTANCE% --extras="%LMTXEXTRAS%" %*
> 
> the installer script works and the distribution gets correctly installed.
> 
> Can you reproduce this? Maybe it would be a good fast fix to set platform=%PLATFORM% in install.bat?

i don't have such a architecture available so what does

\starttext
\ctxlua{inspect(os.uname())}
\stoptext

show on the console?

Hans


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