On 1 November 2017 at 16:29, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Wed, 1 Nov 2017 09:50:47 -0400 (EDT) schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>
>> The only reason that I can think of is that "import solids;" is
>> calling an external program and there are some settings in your
>> texmfcnf file that is restricting that program to run.
>
> I don't know much about asymptote but as I just tried to debug an
> error message in miktex: Imho the "solids" library calls the three
> library which tries to use the OpenGL-renderer.
>
> In miktex this fails (https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/26)
> and the "solution" is to set the output format to pdf:
>
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/398421/miktex-how-to-install-glut-library-on-windows/398674#398674
>
> Perhaps the problem here is due to a similar issue.

If this has something to do with OpenGL, a properly built asymptote
might solve the problem. Which OS and which distribution are you
using?

Mojca

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