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On 3/1/2014 1:42 PM, hwitloc@gmail.com wrote:
On my system I already have Cygwin. I want to install the standalone Context.
Which involves basically:
mkdir -o /opt/context cd /opt/context wget "http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh chmod 744 first-setup.sh ./first-setup.sh
#this works up to this point only partially.
- /opt/context/tex is not installed. This is a bad error. It causes - first-setup.sh to fail.
And what is loaded will cause conflicts with cygwin which already exists, I believe. I can't see why rsync is use to load anothe versio of rsync in a diff location.
#1. Why does 1st setup duplicate Cygwin dlls? I've hurd that having multiple cygwin*.dlls can cause problems. Besideds They already exist and so does luatex.exe for that matter. 'first-setup.sh' should know that it does a test for CYGWIN, but doesn't seem to do anything with it.
at some point we will switch to mingw rsync (has been tested a while ago) so then the dll's will go
#2. Also redundant and confusing is first-setup.sh forces the fetching of rsync by an already existing rsync. Is rsync already exists, why fetch another one and put it in a different location.
because figuring out what is available is more work (and we want the rsync to match the one at the server)
I have texlive for unix on a cygwin platform, on top of an XP system.
I want to make installing the standalone easy for cyginw and linux.
afaik it's easy alreasdu on linux
# # Firstly, exactly what packages are needed for context? # I assume it's one or more of the mtx prefixed programs below. Please advise.
- mtx-update.lua
- mtxrun.exe - mtxrun.dll - mtxrun.lua
- lua52.dll - luatex.dll Is this needed in addition to luatex.exe? - luatex.exe
- kpathsea620.dll
I understand that there are not a lot of people experimenting with the latest ConTeXt and even less for the Cygin platform. But, I would like to make it easer and clearer for Cygwin users who do want to experiement with the latest versions.
eh .. i bet tat most users use the latest context but you're probably right that not that many users are on cygwin (if u need unix alongside windows i use a vm) as there are native windows binaries (makes me wonder if these can be run inside cygwin)
I don't know if installing for a native linux version is easier or more straightforward or not
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