On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Johan Råde
Hi,
I'm trying to get ConTeXt to run on my Windows machine (Windows 7 SP1). I already had MiKTeX installed on the machine. Here is what I did:
1. I downloaded context-setup-mswin.zip. 2. I unzipped and copied the folder to C:/context 3. I ran the command first-setup.bat --context=current --modules=all 4. I added C:\context\tex\texmf-win64\bin to my PATH variable 5. I opened up the example file at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Hello_world in TeXWorks 6. I selected ConTeXt(LuaTeX) 7. I compiled the file
The compilation failed. The log says:
mtx-context | warning: synctex is enabled mtx-context | run 1: luatex --fmt="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luatex/cont-en" --jobname="HelloWorld" --lua="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luatex/cont-en.lui" --no-parse-first-line --synctex=1 --c:currentrun=1 --c:fulljobname="./HelloWorld.tex" --c:input="./HelloWorld.tex" --c:kindofrun=1 --c:maxnofruns=8 --c:synctex "cont-yes.mkiv" This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.76.0-2013062820 (rev 4627) \write18 enabled.
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1
What am I doing wrong?
That's weird. Try running first-setup.bat without --context=current. And then try to stay in the command line, run setuptex.bat (I forgot the details) or change the PATH variable manually and try running "context --make --all". (Due to the criticism of releasing the "current" all too often, Hans started releasing betas. But then he stopped releasing stable versions and as a consequence very often "current" doesn't even work with the luatex version shipped with the distribution. I would bet that "--context=current" is broken, but I didn't try it. You should get beta by default.) But the weird thing is that "Fatal format file error; I'm stymied" error was common with pdfTeX. With ConTeXt MkIV the formats are usually regenerated automatically. Mojca