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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: ConTeXt Suite in Windows
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 09:28:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5535FC05.6090904@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5535D209.5020108@gmx.es>

On 4/21/2015 6:28 AM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 04/21/2015 01:17 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 4/20/2015 9:13 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> I have downloaded the ConTeXt Suite (beta from 2015.04.14 18:48)for
>>> Win32 and Win64 in my Linux box using:
>>>
>>>       sh ./first-setup.sh --platform=windows --modules=all
>>>       sh ./first-setup.sh --platform=win64 --modules=all
>>>
>>> But when I try to run them, I experience the following issues:
>>>
>>> With the Win32 version, mtxrunjit is found by Windows 7, but contextjit
>>> cannot be found. The binary is in its proper path.
>>>
>>> Withe the Win64 version, contextjit is found, but mtxrunjit cannot be
>>> found. In this case, I need to run "mtxrunjit --generate" first, because
>>> invoking contextjit gives the following error:
>>>
>>> mtxrun          | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua'
>>>
>>> Why are some binaries found by Windows and others not?
>>
>> don't use a 32/64 mix ... the startup scripts use dll's and look on the
>> path and some consistency is assumed in that lookup
>
> Sorry, Hans, I haven’t explained myself accurately.
>
> In a Win64 computer, I have tested each version (32bit and 64bit)
> separately. And I got the results you have above.
>
> I don’t know what is wrong here.

i think you need the 64 on windows 64 ... we identify the platform and 
bitness and set some paths accordingly (texmf-* paths)

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-21  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-20 19:13 Pablo Rodriguez
2015-04-20 23:17 ` Hans Hagen
2015-04-21  4:28   ` Pablo Rodriguez
2015-04-21  7:28     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-04-21 19:37       ` Pablo Rodriguez
2015-04-21 19:45         ` Hans Hagen

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