Re: Miktex on Mac under Parallels

Siep Kroonenberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 11:09:04AM -0500, Per Ting wrote:
> I have just installed Parallels 9 (under Mavericks) and installed an old
> copy of XP professional SP1. I have downloaded Miktex (basic Miktex 2.9) on
> my desktop. When I double click to install it I get a message saying "The
> procedure entry point DecodePointer could not be located in the dynamic
> link library KERNEL32.dll". How can I solve this problem? I had the same
> problem when I tried to install Miktex complete too.
> 
> Thanks

According to Microsoft, DecodePointer was only introduced in XP SP2.

Did you consider installing MacTeX instead?
http://www.tug.org/mactex/

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Siep Kroonenberg

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