Re: Unable to build MiKTeX

Hi David,

Answering your question about the basic background for what I'm doing: My
goal is to add a certain Lua library to LuaLaTeX.  The library has to be
built from source, but when I build it with LuaRocks and try to use it in
an existing MiKTeX installation, then the module's DLL doesn't work and is
rejected by LuaLaTeX for some reason.  I'm hoping to either build MiKTeX
statically with this Lua module to get it working, or perhaps make it so
that MiKTeX and the library DLL are built with the same environment so that
the DLL can be accepted.  I might ask for further assistance on this soon.
Anyways...

It looks like my DLL errors with running "miktex-texworks.exe" might have
been something transient because I needed to try different Qt versions
earlier, needed to take additional steps to get Xsltproc working, and was
trying to resume my build.  I "bit the bullet" and rebuilt everything from
the beginning using the most recent setup that we found works with Qt
version 5.8.0-beta (and after taking the needed steps to get Xsltproc
working).  I got "nmake" and "nmake install" to complete successfully.  The
latter command installs to the folder "C:\miktex\build-install".  In order
to get "miktex-texworks.exe" to work, I found that I first need to copy the
following DLL files from "C:\Qt\Qt5.8.0\5.8\msvc2015_64\bin" to
"C:\miktex\build-install\texmf\miktex\bin\x64" (the folder containing
"miktex-texworks.exe" in the "nmake install" destination):
  - Qt5Widgets.dll
  - Qt5Gui.dll
  - Qt5Core.dll
After copying these DLL files, "miktex-texworks.exe" is able to run and the
window comes up.  Note: Simply having "C:\Qt\Qt5.8.0\5.8\msvc2015_64\bin"
in my PATH environment variable does not seem to suffice.  The program
seems to need the DLL files to be present in the same folder with it.
Please let me know if manually copying these DLL files this way is not the
ideal method.

When you say to set the CMake build options, is the primary way to do this
by editing the values in "C:\miktex\build\CMakeCache.txt" (which is
generated by the CMake command and used as an input to NMake)?  Here's what
happened when I edited the file to enable the options you mentioned and
similar options, and then ran "nmake install" again afterward:
  - Setting "INSTALL_MIKTEX_HEADERS", "INSTALL_STATIC_LIBRARIES", and
"MIKTEX_SELF_CONTAINED" to "ON" (default was "OFF"): I think that the build
process built some additional items, and I found that the resulting install
target directory ("C:\miktex\build-install") has some more contents in the
"include" and "lib" subdirectories.
  - Setting "INSTALL_PACKAGE_DATABASE" to "ON" (default was "OFF"): The
build process seems to want the "wget" program so that it can connect to
the Internet and download packages.  (Based on information in the source
file "C:\miktex\miktex-2.9-master\CMakeLists.txt", I believe that it wants
to download from "ctan.org".)

I ran the Cygwin setup again and installed "wget" (version 1.18-1).  This
makes Cygwin install the following dependencies: libgnutls28 version
3.3.17-1, libhogweed2 version 2.7.1-1, libidn11 version 1.29-1, libidn2_0
version 0.11-1, libnettle4 version 2.7.1-1, libpsl5 version 0.14.0-2,
libunistring2 version 0.9.6-1.  (An update for the Cygwin installer became
available since the last time that I ran it, but I didn't install that
update at this time.)

With "INSTALL_MIKTEX_HEADERS", "INSTALL_STATIC_LIBRARIES",
"MIKTEX_SELF_CONTAINED", and "INSTALL_PACKAGE_DATABASE" all set to "ON" in
"C:\miktex\build\CMakeCache.txt", I then deleted the
"C:\miktex\build-install" directory and re-ran "nmake" in
"C:\miktex\build".  I got the following errors at the beginning and the end:
---- Beginning of head of nmake output: ----

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.00.24210.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
/usr/bin/tar: Child returned status 1
/usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
/usr/bin/tar: Child returned status 1
/usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: C:/miktex/build
[  0%] Built target gen_test_char
[  0%] Built target gen-apr-headers
[  1%] Built target MiKTeX209-apr
---- End of head of nmake output. ----

---- Beginning of tail of nmake output: ----
[100%] Built target miktex-luajit
Install the project...
-- Install configuration: "RelWithDebInfo"
CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:31 (file):
  file INSTALL cannot find "C:/miktex/build/mpm.ini".


NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'echo' : return code '0x1'
Stop.

---- End of tail of nmake output. ----

If I retry "nmake install", then the errors at beginning don't repeat, but
the error at the end does repeat.

If I then change "INSTALL_PACKAGE_DATABASE" back to "OFF", then the
build/install works as before.

What I'm actually wondering is: Can I generate the "Basic MiKTeX Installer"
that contains the full MiKTeX installation without an immediate need to
download anything external?  This is usually named
"basic-miktex-<version>-x64.exe" when you download it from "
https://miktex.org/download".  Currently I only see what seems to be the
"MiKTeX Net Installer" being generated, which is the setup that requires a
download of external packages; the file path is
"C:\miktex\build-install\texmf\miktex\bin\x64\setup.exe" in my install
target, and is named "setup-<version>-x64.exe" when you download it from "
https://miktex.org/download".  Is a successful build with
"INSTALL_PACKAGE_DATABASE" set to "ON" required in order to generate the
"Basic MiKTeX Installer"?  You mentioned the packaging repo which I see at "
https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex-packaging".  Is that repo required to
build the "Basic MiKTeX Installer"?

Thanks.
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