Re: Unable to build MiKTeX

You need to install it first - nmake install will install it to C:\MiKTeX-Builds\2.9 although you can also set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to override that.

The specific problem with TeXworks sounds like either Qt5core.dll is not in your path or a slightly different version of it is in path. The install target may well copy it for you, but I wouldn't expect to be able to run a project of this size from its build tree.

There are various build options you may want to set in CMake itself: for example, MIKTEX_SELF_CONTAINED, INSTALL_PACKAGE_DATABASE.

The build system for MiKTeX is not going to assemble packages for you - that's part of the packaging repo. But this really does beg the question of why are you doing this, at this point? :o)


David 

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> From: A [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 12 December 2016 00:18
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> Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Unable to build MiKTeX
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Okay, I will likely look into possibly doing that sometime after getting
> the whole thing working.
> 
> You're absolutely right that I cannot run "xsltproc" or "xsltproc
> --version".  It comes up with an error dialog with title "xsltproc.exe -
> System Error" and text "The program can't start because libxml2-2.dll is
> missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this
> problem."
> 
> I made the following changes:
> 
> - Downloaded from "ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/64bit/":
>   - "libxml2-2.9.3-win32-x86_64.7z" -- direct link: "
> ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/64bit/libxml2-2.9.3-win32-x86_64.7z"
>   - "mingwrt-5.2.0-win32-x86_64.7z" -- direct link: "
> ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/64bit/mingwrt-5.2.0-win32-x86_64.7z"
>     - It is also disappointing that, as you said, the instruction page at
> "
> https://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html" doesn't mention the need for
> this.
> - I merged the extracted directory contents of these two archives into
> "C:\miktex\libxslt-1.1.28-win32-x86_64" (that was previously extracted
> from
> "libxslt-1.1.28-win32-x86_64.7z").
> - Then, when I run "xsltproc" / "xsltproc --version" again, I get a new
> error dialog with title "xsltproc.exe - System Error" and text "The
> program
> can't start because libiconv-2.dll is missing from your computer. Try
> reinstalling the program to fix this problem."  Therefore, I obtained the
> remaining two libraries that you mentioned you were unsure were necessary:
>   - "iconv-1.14-win32-x86_64.7z" -- direct link: "ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/
> libxml/64bit/iconv-1.14-win32-x86_64.7z"
>   - "zlib-1.2.8-win32-x86_64.7z" -- direct link: "ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/
> libxml/64bit/zlib-1.2.8-win32-x86_64.7z"
> - I merged the extracted directory contents of these two archives into
> "C:\miktex\libxslt-1.1.28-win32-x86_64" as well.
> 
> After doing this, "xsltproc" and "xsltproc --version" appear to work.
> Here
> is the output of "xsltproc --version":
> ---- Begin output ----
> Using libxml 20903, libxslt 10128 and libexslt 817
> xsltproc was compiled against libxml 20903, libxslt 10128 and libexslt 817
> libxslt 10128 was compiled against libxml 20903
> libexslt 817 was compiled against libxml 20903
> ---- End output ----
> 
> Now, with the command window still in "C:\miktex\build" and the PATH /
> CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH set up as before, and with all of the previously-built
> contents still present, I retried nmake.  This time, the build process
> reached 100% and appeared to complete successfully!
> 
> I think that we're almost there.  I attempted to run
> "C:\miktex\build\binlib\miktex-texworks.exe" (TeXWorks, the main program
> for MiKTeX), and it gives me an error dialog:
>   - Title: "miktex-texworks.exe - Entry Point Not Found"
>   - Text: "The procedure entry point
> ?deadlineNSecs@QDeadlineTimer@@QEBA_JXZ
> could not be located in the dynamic link library Qt5Core.dll."
> 
> I am able to run some other of the built executables in
> "C:\miktex\build\binlib", for example, "bibtex8.exe".
> 
> I tried running "setup.exe", and this program itself appears to work, but
> I'm not really sure what to give it for the installation directory.  When
> I
> look at "MiKTeX Download Files" from a previous installation that I did
> from one of the regular binary releases of MiKTeX, I see a bunch of
> ".lzma"
> and ".cab" files; however, in my build directory "C:\miktex\build", I am
> not finding any ".lzma" or ".cab" files produced by the build process.
> 
> I'm wondering if there's an extra step I need to get TeXWorks working and
> to run the full setup from my build?  Does the error I got for TeXWorks
> indicate that the program failed to build correctly?
> 
> Thanks.
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