how to create texmfstart.exe?

how to create texmfstart.exe?

[Christian Schenk]

I would like to include texmfstart.exe in the MiKTeX distribution, but I 
don't know how to build texmfstart.exe. Is there a simple recipe 
(Makefile) I can start with?

Re: how to create texmfstart.exe?

[Hans Hagen]

Hi Christian
> I would like to include texmfstart.exe in the MiKTeX distribution, but I 
> don't know how to build texmfstart.exe. Is there a simple recipe 
> (Makefile) I can start with?
>   
I'm switching from perl to ruby, so texmfstart is a ruby script. Say that the next code is put in ruby2exe.cmd, then i can make a binary with:

ruby2exe texmfstart 

which comes down to packaging the needed libraries + ruby core into an 'exe'. It uses exerb.  


@echo off

if exist "%~n1.rb" goto run

goto usage

:run

set exerbrubypath=c:\data\system\ruby.1.8.2

%exerbrubypath%\bin\ruby.exe  -r exerb/mkexr %~n1.rb %2
%exerbrubypath%\bin\exerb.exe -v -C %exerbrubypath%\share\exerb\ruby182c.exc %~n1.exr
del /q %~n1.exr %~n1.mak

goto end

:usage

echo usage: ruby2exe filename

:end

the rest of the programs, like texexec, will be started using texmfstart then (which assumes ruby to be present on the system; if not, then one needs to make texexec into an exe as well; there is a list of stubs in the latest context distribution (scripts/context/stubs/...); not all of them are needed, e.g. texutil is now integrated into texexec) 

i use common libraries to figure out the paths, and i hope that i did the miktex handling right; (i'd like to test miktex using my own trees, but it's kind of hard to set the additional trees that i use); anyhow, in the ruby variants it's more easy for me to handle miktex; for the moment it assumes kpsewhich to be present, but i can as well call another database program) 

Hans 

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Re: how to create texmfstart.exe?

[Hans Hagen]

Christian Schenk wrote:
> I would like to include texmfstart.exe in the MiKTeX distribution, but I 
> don't know how to build texmfstart.exe. Is there a simple recipe 
> (Makefile) I can start with?
>
>   
btw, i can ship the pseudo binaries in a separate zip if you like that 

Hans 

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Re: how to create texmfstart.exe?

[Christian Schenk]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> Christian Schenk wrote:
>> I would like to include texmfstart.exe in the MiKTeX distribution, but I 
>> don't know how to build texmfstart.exe. Is there a simple recipe 
>> (Makefile) I can start with?
>>
>>   
> btw, i can ship the pseudo binaries in a separate zip if you like that 

That would be fantastic. Thanks!

Re: how to create texmfstart.exe?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 5/12/06, Christian Schenk <cs@miktex.org> wrote:
> I would like to include texmfstart.exe in the MiKTeX distribution, but I
> don't know how to build texmfstart.exe. Is there a simple recipe
> (Makefile) I can start with?

Great news! MikTeX is going to be[come] ConTeXt-friendly again ;)

Thank you very much for the effort,
    Mojca