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Re: MikTeX, Ghostscript and Cygwin env
- To: Marcin Orlowski <carlos at amiga dot com dot pl>
- Subject: Re: MikTeX, Ghostscript and Cygwin env
- From: Jerome BENOIT <JGMBenoit at Wanadoo dot fr>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:14:04 +0100
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <12133007011.20010218224354@amiga.com.pl>
I guess that it is not a good idea to use MiKTeX under Cygwin
because MiKTeX does not behave Unix-like under Cygwin:
I have (partially) installed `teTeX' and GS6.50 directly under Cygwin
(modulo `patches'):
all is fine and I can write Makefile.
I hope it helps,
Jerome
Marcin Orlowski wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My main point of installing Cygwin environment was to make all my TeX
> documents compilable on windows. Of course MikTeX does not need Cygwin
> stuff to work, but I also wanted all my makefiles work. Not it seems
> to work fine. I can 'make' my documents and it all TeX fine. Except
> for the dvipdfm (dvi->pdf) converter. It uses Ghostscript to process
> images. So I installed GS6.50 and made the dvipdfm use it.
> Unfortunately GS reports it can't find the image files. Now I don't
> know if that's because of cygwin 'emulation' things I am unaware of.
> I'd appreaciate any tips how to make GS to work under cygwin. Or from
> the other hand, all I want is working make, so maybe I shoot with
> too big gun installing Cygwin just for that (of course I don't mind
> bash ;-)?
>
> Regards,
> --
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>
> Marcin http://wfmh.org.pl/~carlos/
> mailto:carlos@wfmh.org.pl
>
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