Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?

Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?

[Mari Voipio]

So,

I went and updated my ConTeXt today as I've got nothing really
critical going on.

I'm running ConTeXt on Windows 7 (64-bit) and I used

firstsetup.bat --modules=all

to update it. Everything works fine otherwise, but during the
installation process both mpost.exe and pdftex.exe complain that "The
program can't start because kpathsea60.dll is missing from your
computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem."

I've never seen that complaint before, but now I get it  consistently,
also after rebooting and updating directly after restart. Both
eventually stop complaining after I'd clicked on OK multiple times
("yes,yes, just go on, will ya").


It doesn't seem critical (I don't use MetaPost and I run MKIV anyway)
- or at least the first test file compiled without complaints, but now
I'm wondering whether my Windows has a problem (MS update related,
maybe?) or whether the Suite has a problem in Windows. And my ConTeXt
is the newest available, because I'm now running version ConTeXt  ver:
2011.12.23 09:52 MKIV and that's more recent than my most recent
working day before this. :-)


Thanks,

Mari
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Re: Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:44, Mari Voipio wrote:
> So,
>
> I went and updated my ConTeXt today as I've got nothing really
> critical going on.
>
> I'm running ConTeXt on Windows 7 (64-bit) and I used
>
> firstsetup.bat --modules=all
>
> to update it. Everything works fine otherwise, but during the
> installation process both mpost.exe and pdftex.exe complain that "The
> program can't start because kpathsea60.dll is missing from your
> computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem."

It's a problem of my clumsy scripts.

Akira warned me a few hours ago.

I'm just a tiny bit confused since I'm not sure if any other binary
still needs the old kpathsea. I think that both should be present at
the moment, but I didn't properly fix everything yet.

Can you please try if it at least works?

Mojca
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Re: Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?

[Hans Hagen]

On 28-12-2011 11:20, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> I'm just a tiny bit confused since I'm not sure if any other binary
> still needs the old kpathsea. I think that both should be present at
> the moment, but I didn't properly fix everything yet.

As all tex related binaries come from Akira, I guess no other binaries 
use an old kpse.

Hans


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Re: Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?

[Peter Rolf]

Am 28.12.2011 11:40, schrieb Hans Hagen:
> On 28-12-2011 11:20, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
>> I'm just a tiny bit confused since I'm not sure if any other binary
>> still needs the old kpathsea. I think that both should be present at
>> the moment, but I didn't properly fix everything yet.
> 
> As all tex related binaries come from Akira, I guess no other binaries
> use an old kpse.
> 

A quick grep (kpathsea6XX) showed that the 6.01 version is still needed
for several files (cweb). No hit for the older versions.

Best wishes,  Peter
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Re: Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?

[Mari Voipio]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:20, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just a tiny bit confused since I'm not sure if any other binary
> still needs the old kpathsea. I think that both should be present at
> the moment, but I didn't properly fix everything yet.
>
> Can you please try if it at least works?

Running plain MKIV works as well as can be expected (I think I just
found a bug elsewhere...), but unfortunately I do not have a clue
about MetaPost, so can't check that. And I seem to have forgotten how
to force ConTeXt to run MkII (pdftex) instead of MkIV (LuaTeX)!


So I'm good for now, for me that's just on the "annoyance" level as
the update won't stick to running in the background. But other than
that, I'm not bothered on the moment. :-)


Regards,


Mari
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Re: Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 28.12.2011 um 12:08 schrieb Mari Voipio:

> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:20, Mojca Miklavec
> <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm just a tiny bit confused since I'm not sure if any other binary
>> still needs the old kpathsea. I think that both should be present at
>> the moment, but I didn't properly fix everything yet.
>> 
>> Can you please try if it at least works?
> 
> Running plain MKIV works as well as can be expected (I think I just
> found a bug elsewhere...), but unfortunately I do not have a clue
> about MetaPost, so can't check that. And I seem to have forgotten how
> to force ConTeXt to run MkII (pdftex) instead of MkIV (LuaTeX)!

There are different ways to use MkII:

- texexec <filename>
- context --pdftex <filename>
- Use “% engine=pdftex” as first line of your document

Wolfgang
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Re: Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:04, Peter Rolf wrote:
> Am 28.12.2011 11:40, schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> On 28-12-2011 11:20, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>>> I'm just a tiny bit confused since I'm not sure if any other binary
>>> still needs the old kpathsea. I think that both should be present at
>>> the moment, but I didn't properly fix everything yet.
>>
>> As all tex related binaries come from Akira, I guess no other binaries
>> use an old kpse.
>
> A quick grep (kpathsea6XX) showed that the 6.01 version is still needed
> for several files (cweb). No hit for the older versions.

That is expected since I take files from TL and not from the latest
W32TeX. I can and probably will change that, but at the time when I
set up everything it was easier to just take files from TL.

Mojca
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Re: Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?

[Hans Hagen]

On 28-12-2011 12:08, Mari Voipio wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:20, Mojca Miklavec
> <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I'm just a tiny bit confused since I'm not sure if any other binary
>> still needs the old kpathsea. I think that both should be present at
>> the moment, but I didn't properly fix everything yet.
>>
>> Can you please try if it at least works?
>
> Running plain MKIV works as well as can be expected (I think I just
> found a bug elsewhere...), but unfortunately I do not have a clue
> about MetaPost, so can't check that. And I seem to have forgotten how
> to force ConTeXt to run MkII (pdftex) instead of MkIV (LuaTeX)!

just add a first line to the file:

% engine=pdftex


Hans

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Re: Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?

[Mari Voipio]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 19:37, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> just add a first line to the file:
>
> % engine=pdftex

I think clueless me missed a space there...


MkII fails miserably due to pdftex missing that .dll file:


>mtxrun --autogenerate --script context --autopdf hello.tex
TeXExec | processing document 'hello.tex'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | tex processing method: context
TeXExec | TeX run 1
TeXExec | writing option file hello.top
TeXExec | using randomseed 1134
TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
TeXExec | tex format: cont-en.mkii
TeXExec | runtime: 7.997
>Exit code: 1


...and I tried something as complicated as

% engine=pdftex

\starttext

Hello world!


\stoptext




....thank goodness we've already decided to migrate everything over to MkIV...



Mari
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