Re: Metapost stopped working

On 21/12/2015 17:31, Christian Schenk wrote:

>> I installed MiKTeX on three different machines running under Windows 10
>> and I have a serious problem concerning MetaPost in two of them.
>> Whenever I try to compile any MetaPost file containing text, such as
>> this one:
>>
>> -------------------- test.tex --------------------
>> prologues := 0
>> beginfig(1)
>>      label(btex a etex,(0,0));
>> endfig;
>> end
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>
>> a window pops up saying that MetaPost has stopped working. Any idea
>> about what I should do?
>
> Is this 32-bit or 64-bit MiKTeX?

The 64-bit version of MiKTeX in both machines that give me trouble and 
the 32-bit version in the other one. My guess is that this is a clue. ;-)

> Are the any log file entries corresponding to the failure?

No. In order to run MetaPost, I open a DOS window and I type something like:

mpost test

What I get after that is:

This is MetaPost, version 1.999 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit) (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit)
(C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/metapost/base/mpost.mp
(C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/metapost/base/plain.mp
Preloading the plain mem file, version 1.004) ) (./test.mpfatal: Command 
failed:
  tex --parse-first-line --interaction=nonstopmode mp725550.tex; see 
mpxerr.log

However, I can compile the file mpxerr.tex without problems. On the 
other hand, the file test.log is empty.

Best regards,

José Carlos Santos

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