Re: win2k and context

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
>> Please test whether the luatex binaries work at all. Without a working
>> luatex binary it's pointless to even discuss any further. Once you
>> find a working luatex, we'll be able to help you further.
>
> The mingw 0.72.0 is not complaining about missing functions. So I can
> say: It runs! Don't know if there are other problems.

Just curious: is that the latest version that works according to your
tests or did you actually try just this one?

>> Btw: a working mtxrun alone won't help you because that won't
>> necessarily give you a compatible luatex version. In the worst case
>> you can probably replace mtxrun with a batch script.
>
> With a working mtxrun I could downgrade using the context=<date>
> switch. This switch makes not much sens if it is not working with
> older versions.

If LuaTeX runs, fetch ConTeXt from git:
   * https://github.com/contextgarden/context/
   * http://git.contextgarden.net/context/context/
(or from elsewhere).

The switch --context=<date> became pretty much useless as there are no
more regular "current" releases of ConTeXt. With git you get access to
more versions.

The script mtxrun contains some instructions about how one could run it:

LUATEXDIR=/....../texmf/scripts/context/lua luatex --luaonly mtxrun.lua "$@"

If you translate that syntax to a mtxrun.bat, it will probably work.
Or you can try to compile mtxrun yourself.

Mojca
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