Re: makeindex stopped working

Hey,

thanks for your quick reply! So I got activeperl from their website and installed it (I use Windows 10 and texstudio btw), moved the perl script to the correct subfolder and updated the FNDB as you said, but I still got the same error messages (using your command “txs:///pdflatex --shell-escape”):

splitindex: The script engine could not be found. splitindex: Data: scriptEngine="perl.exe"

texindy: The script engine could not be found. texindy: Data: scriptEngine="perl.exe"

texindy: The script engine could not be found. texindy: Data: scriptEngine="perl.exe"

Then I thought maybe the scripts can’t find the fresh perl installation so I reinstalled the packages via the miktex package manager to no avail. Then I reinstalled miktex but I still got the same error messages. So I did a bit of googling on the error messages but for the exact phrasing “The script engine could not be found“ I only found one result in a forum where you have also been active:  http://golatex.de/index-wird-nicht-mehr-erstellt-t18569.html unfortunately this didn’t help me. Other than that I only found related troubleshooting on “the Perl interpreter could not be found.“ Which may or may not be related to my problem. I followed the steps described here anyways: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/158796/miktex-and-perl-scripts-and-one-python-script . At the end it mentions a test to check if it works by using a command like this in the command prompt: “splitindex –version”. I did that and I got the version back so I assume I did everything right, however when I try to compile the document I still get the same error messages as before.  I’m pretty much out of ideas now. Also I feel like the problem isn’t that the scripts can’t be found but rather that miktex can’t find the perl.exe. Could that be a possibility?


Cheers,
Marius







Von: Ulrike Fischer
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2017 12:35
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [MiKTeX] makeindex stopped working

Am Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:11:17 +0200 schrieb Marius Pfeifer:

> Hi,
> 
> so I tried to produce a minimal complete example. This is the result:
> 

https://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/bugs/2615/

After I moved the perl script to the correct subfolder and updated
the FNDB (perhaps not needed) your file,  compiled fine with 

pdflatex --shell-escape. 



-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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