Re: ConTeXt Standalone/Suite in Windows

["Pablo Rodríguez" <oinos@web.de>]

On 23/11/12 00:40, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> ···<date: 2012-11-22, Thursday>···<from: Pablo Rodríguez>···
>>>> [...]
>>>> I would like to be able to use a ConTeXt Standalone on a computer with
>>>> WinXP Pro and no internet connection and no administrative rights.
>>>>
>>>> Isn't it possible to install on a different computer (let's say
>>>> c:\context) and then move that to the same directory on the other
>>>> computer?
>  [...]
> One definitely doesn't need wine. If one only has a linux machine on
> the network, using
>     ./first-setup.sh --platform=mswin
> should suffice (probably one only needs to run mtxrun/mktexlsr and
> "context --make" [texexec --make] for the first time on the new
> machine).
> 
> If you have windows computer, just fetch the files and copy them to
> the other machine. Actually, we also had zips
> (http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/), but I stopped updating
> them.
> 
> The distribution is not "installed" in traditional sense. Only the
> files are fetched and nothing is written into global PATH or registry.

Many thanks for the replies, Hans, Philipp, Aditya and Mojca.

I understood
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Moving_the_installation_tree_around_.28linux.29
so that non-Unix trees weren't impossible to move.

Many thanks for your help again,


Pablo
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