[tex-live] ConTeXt in TL on Windows broken

taco taco at elvenkind.com
Tue Jun 1 19:31:24 CEST 2010


taco wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> I can imagine that windows has found the binary texlua.exe without a
>> problem while mtxrun was trying to be more clever than windows and
>> tried to find that binary on its own. Note that "%PATH" is not a valid
>> folder or path.
> 
> It is possible (I assume) that cmd.exe does look at the current
> directory as well as PATH, but the API call does not.
> 
>> It may be ok to first use the binary from PATH, but then the current
>> folder should be checked at least. 
> 
> That is what the new mtxrun.dll does. I'll commit that in a bit.

Correction: it looks at the directory where mtxrun.dll itself
lives, not the current directory.

Best wishes,
Taco



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