Re: Standalone Installation Question

From: hwitloc@gmail.com
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Standalone Installation Question
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 22:54:48 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131020225448.3780@binki> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:46:36 +0200 <CAG5iGsAaSeMDLp91qRg9K64zaUfv_-TdRNfLk7siJ0AuQyaLdg@mail.gmail.com>

Yes I saw the Windows version of Context mentioned and read it, but the documentation is,
in this case, wrong or not fully correct.  This is because I am now using Context which comes is included in the TexLive distribution, selected with Unix like operating systems.  No bat files or other ancillary code or invokations are necessary. 

 Texlive's Context program would probably not run directly on Microsoft Windows O.S.
I believe that the documentation can be expanded to cover using a Context on Cygwin directly and not the Microsoft port which requires the usage of strange Microsoft pathnames, with C:\ and \ seperators.

Using context on cygwin for cygwin may only have been done in TexLive for Unix like systems, but I'd like to use and test on the bleeding edge MKIV.  But, that proves that it can be done.  I just don't know what was done.

So, perhaps I should ask if anyone knows how TexLive packages Context so that it runs directly with the cygwin environment.  It might be terribly difficult in which case I will not do it for lack of knowledge and time.  

In what form is Context supplied to TexLive?    Maybe I'd have to build Context on this cygwin platform to use it.    That is what I am looking into.  

Any ideas or information?

luigi scarso
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:23 AM,
> 
>     My platform is cygwin, which gives Posix compatibility. The inital
>     loading shell script noticed thsi provided the cygwin dll.
>     
>     If necessary, I can build from source if available. But, ts
>     possile that x86 would work due the the cygwin interface, but I'm
>     not sure.
>     
>     What to do to complete the installation?
>     
>     Thanks
>     
>     
> IIUC
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#General_Information
> Cygwin is under Windows, so you have first to install the windows
> version
> and then run it under cywin
> Windows
> Use ConTeXt with Cygwin
> 
> """
> 
> After installing the ConTeXt suite, you can run it under Cygwin. With
> Cygwin, you may use gmake and other Unix tools for your automated
> workflow. 
> 
> 1 Run setuptex.bat in DOS command prompt 
> 
> 2 In the same DOS prompt, enter Cygwin by running cygwin.bat (in your
>   Cygwin installation directory) 
> 
> 3 Under Cygwin prompt, run context.cmd test.tex . Note that the .cmd
>   extension is needed under Cygwin. 
> 
> """
> 
> -- 
> luigi
> 
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