Re: Setting TEXINPUTS on Windows (MINGW64)

Ok, it seems I finally found an incantation that works as intended:

export TEXINPUTS="./texmf//;C:/Program Files/R/R-4.5.1/share/texmf//;"

To sum up:

- everything in quotes to hide the semi-colons from the shell;
- identify the drive by C:/ (to make kpsewhich happy) instead of /c/ (as the shell would do).

Makes sense in the end. ;-)

Vincent Goulet
École d'actuariat, Université Laval


> Le 22 août 2025 à 17:23, Vincent Goulet via tex-live <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> I tried many things, but the for the life of me I can't get this to work.
> 
> On my macOS system, I have this in my shell configuration to add two paths to the TEXINPUTS variable:
> 
> export TEXINPUTS=./texmf//:/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/texmf//:
> 
> I need to replicate the config on Windows, but really in a Unix shell under Windows, namely MINGW64 (a.k.a. Git Bash or Git SDK). I'm assuming I can follow the standard Unix instructions, so I put this in ~/.profile:
> 
> export TEXINPUTS=./texmf//:"/c/Program Files/R/R-4.5.1/share/texmf"//:
> 
> (Note the need for quotes as the second path contains a space.) Using this, the last / always get stripped:
> 
> $ kpsewhich.exe -var-value TEXINPUTS
> ./texmf//;C:/Program Files/R/R-4.5.1/share/texmf/;
> 
> I tried all sorts of things to no avail: putting the slashes inside the quotes, putting the whole value of the variable in quotes, doubling the slashes (!), escaping them (!!), ...
> 
> Any pointer would be much appreciated.
> 
> Vincent Goulet
> École d'actuariat, Université Laval
> 
>