lua problem with Windows Vista

lua problem with Windows Vista

[Johan Sandblom]

Hi, after acquiring a Thinkpad X61 I have takon on the ordeal of
learning to use Windows Vista. I have turned off User Account Control
and installed cygwin. In order to install context I tried several ways
without success:

the ContextMinimalInstaller.exe failed by silently not downloading any files

the minimals installer failed with rsync complaining when it was
unable to create several directories. first-setup.bat ran without
error if I manually created those directories but turned out not to
have populated the file system when done

In the end I unzipped justtex.zip and mswintex.zip and manually
updated relevant parts of that tree with rsync from
rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals

MkII seems to work after this but when I run

luatools --generate
luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en

I get the output below which looks like a lua error. luatex version is
snapshot-0.22.0-2008021623. I do not know enough about lua to track
this error down. I am hoping someone knows what to do. Perhaps there
is even someone who can tell me an easier way to install context on
vista.

Johan



LuaTools | version 1.1.1 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT

LuaTools | loading configuration for c:/tex/texmf-local/web2c from C:/Users/joha
ns/AppData/Local/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/tree
s/79b9a157cfe9c83efa99199d2bcebd4f
LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-mswin
LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-project
LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-fonts
LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-local
LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-extra
LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf
LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf-mswin from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Loc
al/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/39e55a4309bf
e2ea9f639d421936eee1
LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf-fonts from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Loc
al/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/83bb976cee5f
5053375aec6fae7ab80c
LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf-local from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Loc
al/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/a6e65cc51848
d6322c812f7170ffc63f
LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf-extra from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Loc
al/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/5def5151ca91
743ee0b11f69c81dbcc6
LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Local/Tem
p/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/cc606a690f61463c3d
016cc2fdb6859f
LuaTools | creating initialization file cont-en
LuaTools | using library path : c:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base
LuaTools | using lua libraries: l-string.lua l-table.lua l-boolean.lua l-number.
lua l-unicode.lua l-md5.lua l-os.lua l-io.lua l-file.lua l-dir.lua l-utils.lua l
-tex.lua luat-lib.lua luat-inp.lua luat-tmp.lua luat-zip.lua luat-tex.lua
LuaTools | using compiled initialization file cont-en.luc
LuaTools | using lua initialization file cont-en.luc
LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "c:/tex/texmf-local
/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \dump
?:0: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value)

LuaTools |
LuaTools | runtime: 0.2 seconds

-- 
Johan Sandblom, MD PhD
m +46735521477  Sweden
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the
will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
- Bertrand Russell
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Re: lua problem with Windows Vista

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Johan Sandblom wrote:

> MkII seems to work after this but when I run
>
> luatools --generate
> luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en
>
> I get the output below which looks like a lua error. luatex version is
> snapshot-0.22.0-2008021623. I do not know enough about lua to track
> this error down. I am hoping someone knows what to do. Perhaps there
> is even someone who can tell me an easier way to install context on
> vista.

Hi Johan,

I think I had the same error; it will disappear when you upgrade to a  
more recent snapshot of luatex. (The one on http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex 
  now is 0.22.1, but you may even need to compile from svn). As for  
Vista, my best advice would be to install linux instead ;-)

Thomas
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Re: lua problem with Windows Vista

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz
<thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
>  On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Johan Sandblom wrote:
>
>  > MkII seems to work after this but when I run
>  >
>  > luatools --generate
>  > luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en
>  >
>  > I get the output below which looks like a lua error. luatex version is
>  > snapshot-0.22.0-2008021623. I do not know enough about lua to track
>  > this error down. I am hoping someone knows what to do. Perhaps there
>  > is even someone who can tell me an easier way to install context on
>  > vista.
>
>  Hi Johan,
>
>  I think I had the same error; it will disappear when you upgrade to a
>  more recent snapshot of luatex. (The one on http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex
>   now is 0.22.1, but you may even need to compile from svn). As for
>  Vista, my best advice would be to install linux instead ;-)

I'm sorry - when I was updating the binaries (still missing for
mac-ppc and linux-64), there were no binaries from Akira available
yet, and I forgot to update a few days later.

This (new luatex) should be fixed now (but I still need to figure out
what goes wrong with the installation scripts on windows).

you can also use rsync -av contextgarden.net/minimals/pragma/mswin/

Mojca
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