Re: Unable to build MiKTeX

A wrote:
> Aha, you're right!  It turns out that "C:\Program Files\CMake\bin" has its
> own Qt DLLs that interfere with the DLLs that "miktex-texworks.exe" uses,
> so "C:\Qt\Qt5.8.0\5.8\msvc2015_64\bin" needs to go before it in the PATH
> (or you need to remove the CMake directory from the PATH) when running the
> built programs that require the Qt DLLs.  Doing this, then "miktex-
> texworks" can run without the DLLs being in the folder with it.

Good, that was weird otherwise! However, your life will be simpler if you copy the correct DLLs into the folder, as the Windows dynamic linker always first looks in the same directory when loading DLLs.

> Is there a "minimum set" of CTAN libraries that's needed for MiKTeX?  Is
> there a list of these somewhere?
> 
> So the "Basic MiKTeX Installer" is not open-sourced like the rest of the
> project??

I don't think there is a public list - although it may be in some of the documents in the source repo (have a grep). 

I think only Christian can answer the other question - the installer is certainly a separate project (and it's not uncommon for binary installers to be entirely separate projects).


David 


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