Installing ConTeXt in Windows (XP)

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Cecil Westerhof

12 Aug 2011 12 Aug '11

3:14 p.m.

I like to install ConTeXt on a Windows (XP) machine (so I can make an installation manual). I use: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Installation_and_use_on_Win... The preferable setup would be with the GUI. But when I do this. I get: update failed Error code: 1 and Make failed Error code: 1 What is happening here? I also tried (in c:\context): first-setup.bat --context=current This looks okay, but when running context I get: mtxrun | forcing cache reload resolvers | resolving | unknown configuration file 'c:/contextminimal/texm f-local/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' resolvers | resolving | unknown configuration file 'c:/contextminimal/texm f-context/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' resolvers | resolving | unknown configuration file 'c:/contextminimal/texm f/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' resolvers | resolving | resolvers | resolving | warning: no lua configuration files found resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'c:/contextminimal/texmf' (runtim e) resolvers | methods | resolver: method=locators, how=uri, scheme=file, arg ument=c:/contextminimal/texmf resolvers | files | file locator 'c:/contextminimal/texmf' not found resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'c:/contextminimal/texmf-local' ( runtime) resolvers | methods | resolver: method=locators, how=uri, scheme=file, arg ument=c:/contextminimal/texmf-local resolvers | files | file locator 'c:/contextminimal/texmf-local' not found resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'c:/contextminimal/texmf-context' (runtime) resolvers | methods | resolver: method=locators, how=uri, scheme=file, arg ument=c:/contextminimal/texmf-context resolvers | files | file locator 'c:/contextminimal/texmf-context' not fou nd resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'c:/contextminimal/texmf-mswin' ( runtime) resolvers | methods | resolver: method=locators, how=uri, scheme=file, arg ument=c:/contextminimal/texmf-mswin resolvers | files | file locator 'c:/contextminimal/texmf-mswin' not found resolvers | resolving | resolvers | resolving | mtxrun | the resolver databases are not present or outdated resolvers | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua' resolvers | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua' resolvers | resolving | remembered file 'mtx-context.lua' resolvers | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua' mtxrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' So it looks like the script first-setup.bat needs some finetuning. The script context expects a file: c:/contextminimal/texmf-local/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' there is a directory: C:\context\tex\texmf-local but this directory is empty. Is the script wrong, or am I doing something wrong? Under Linux I did not have a problem. -- Cecil Westerhof

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Mari Voipio

12 Aug 12 Aug

3:24 p.m.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 18:14, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

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I like to install ConTeXt on a Windows (XP) machine (so I can make an installation manual). I use:

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Installation_and_use_on_Win...

The preferable setup would be with the GUI. But when I do this. I get: update failed Error code: 1 and Make failed Error code: 1

What is happening here?

That has been broken for a looonnng while and I know, I should've gotten around to working with Vyatcheslav on it [I found an extra problem while trying it on Win7], but that just hasn't happened. In the mean while, see if this helps: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Windows_Installation, especially the note at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Windows_Installation#Step_1:_Download_a.... I had a real fight with my 64-bit Win7 over the installation and then I just decided to give up and try again the next working day and shut down the computer. And lo and behold, when I booted it up the next work morning, everything worked - so I guess I didn't boot it often enough. Hmm.... I think I'm currently using an XP that's never had ConTeXt on it. And I have the admin priviledges... I might give it a try Sunday or Monday, if you can't get your installation sorted out before that! Mari

Cecil Westerhof

3:56 p.m.

2011/8/12 Mari Voipio

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On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 18:14, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

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I like to install ConTeXt on a Windows (XP) machine (so I can make an installation manual). I use:

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Installation_and_use_on_Win...

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The preferable setup would be with the GUI. But when I do this. I get: update failed Error code: 1 and Make failed Error code: 1

What is happening here?

That has been broken for a looonnng while and I know, I should've gotten around to working with Vyatcheslav on it [I found an extra problem while trying it on Win7], but that just hasn't happened.

I do not want to be obnoxious, but should the WiKi not have been updated then? In the mean while, see if this helps:

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http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Windows_Installation, especially the note at < http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Windows_Installation#Step_1:_Download_a...

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I'll do that. Can it also be installed with TeXworks? I had a real fight with my 64-bit Win7 over the installation and then

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I just decided to give up and try again the next working day and shut down the computer. And lo and behold, when I booted it up the next work morning, everything worked - so I guess I didn't boot it often enough.

That is a very annoying thing: rebooting 'resolves' problems under Windows.

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Hmm.... I think I'm currently using an XP that's never had ConTeXt on it. And I have the admin priviledges... I might give it a try Sunday or Monday, if you can't get your installation sorted out before that!

I hope I will have, but if not, I would appreciate this very much. -- Cecil Westerhof

Cecil Westerhof

4:14 p.m.

2011/8/12 Cecil Westerhof

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In the mean while, see if this helps:

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http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Windows_Installation, especially the note at < http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Windows_Installation#Step_1:_Download_a...

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That does the same as where I had a problem with. The manager wants to close for the weekend. So I'll have to try Willi's solution when I am home. (There I have Vista I think -I almost never work at home with Windows-, but I hope that what work in Vista, will work in XP also.) -- Cecil Westerhof

Willi Egger

8:36 p.m.

Hi Cecil just out of curiosity I installed TeXWorks under Windows (XP). In order to let TeXWorks use the minimals one needs to set things up. 1. create a batch file e.g. TW-context.bat with the following content: call c:\context\tex\setuptex.bat c:\context\tex context "%~dpn1.tex" I saved the file in the Owners folder. Of course the path in the call statement must reflect the situation on your machine. 2 Start TeXWorks 3 Open under 'Edit' 'Preferences' and there the tab 'Typeseting' 4 Add in the top window with plus the path to the batch-file e.g. C:/Documents and Settings/Owner 5 Add with + in the processing tools window a new entry, fill the configuration screen in: Name: e.g. ContextMKIV 6 Fill the Programme: (easiest with the Browse button) C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/TW-context.bat 7 Add with + an new argument and fill in $basename 8 Click the checkbox to have TW showing the generated pdf 9 Click OK 10 Change the default tool to be used to ContextMKIV 11 Click OK and you are done! Have fun Willi On 12 Aug 2011, at 18:14, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

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2011/8/12 Cecil Westerhof In the mean while, see if this helps: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Windows_Installation, especially the note at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Windows_Installation#Step_1:_Download_a....

That does the same as where I had a problem with.

The manager wants to close for the weekend. So I'll have to try Willi's solution when I am home. (There I have Vista I think -I almost never work at home with Windows-, but I hope that what work in Vista, will work in XP also.)

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Cecil Westerhof

15 Aug 15 Aug

9:38 a.m.

2011/8/12 Willi Egger

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just out of curiosity I installed TeXWorks under Windows (XP).

In order to let TeXWorks use the minimals one needs to set things up.

1. create a batch file e.g. TW-context.bat with the following content:

call c:\context\tex\setuptex.bat c:\context\tex context "%~dpn1.tex"

I saved the file in the Owners folder. Of course the path in the call statement must reflect the situation on your machine.

2 Start TeXWorks 3 Open under 'Edit' 'Preferences' and there the tab 'Typeseting' 4 Add in the top window with plus the path to the batch-file e.g. C:/Documents and Settings/Owner 5 Add with + in the processing tools window a new entry, fill the configuration screen in: Name: e.g. ContextMKIV 6 Fill the Programme: (easiest with the Browse button) C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/TW-context.bat 7 Add with + an new argument and fill in $basename 8 Click the checkbox to have TW showing the generated pdf 9 Click OK 10 Change the default tool to be used to ContextMKIV 11 Click OK

and you are done!

For one reason or another it does not work. I think because the batch setups an environment and does not compile the source. I do not get an error message, but the pdf is not generated. When I open a DOS prompt, I need to execute the batch file to get context recognized as a command. When I execute context after executing the batch file, the pdf is generated. But when I change the batch file for: C:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/context.exe The compilation is started, but does not work correctly, because the environment is not set correctly. I tried executing the batch file to set the environment, but that is not recognised in TeXworks. I first tried to change the batch file and let it start TeXworks. That worked, but then I had a better idea. In step four I set the path to: C:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin And now it works completely correct I think. -- Cecil Westerhof

Mari Voipio

12 Aug 12 Aug

4:20 p.m.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 18:56, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

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That has been broken for a looonnng while and I know, I should've gotten around to working with Vyatcheslav on it [I found an extra problem while trying it on Win7], but that just hasn't happened.

I do not want to be obnoxious, but should the WiKi not have been updated then?

Probably. Personally, I always get lost among the installation pages and end up on the one that's "mine", so I haven't even tried to figure out where else to put that note. I don't know if there are any other non-techy "Windows only" people in this crows, so most won't ever stumble on this particular problem. :-D Besides, Real Life interfered and I spent 8 months away from ConTeXt, I'm currently trying to get back in gear. I will have to, because the user manual I'm working on should look reasonably good by the end of August.

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In the mean while, see if this helps: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Windows_Installation, especially the note at

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Windows_Installation#Step_1:_Download_a....

I'll do that. Can it also be installed with TeXworks?

I've never tried. I don't do any other TeX stuff than ConTeXt and I've kind of gotten used to SciTe since the time of the first Windows standalone distro, so I haven't had the need to try anything else. (And my ConTeXting goes strictly on "need-to-know" basis...)

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Hmm.... I think I'm currently using an XP that's never had ConTeXt on it. And I have the admin priviledges... I might give it a try Sunday or Monday, if you can't get your installation sorted out before that!

I hope I will have, but if not, I would appreciate this very much.

Well, Willi already gave you something better to work on, hopefully that helps. But I should probably try his method on the old XP and then fix the wiki, too. And then see, if we can get the GUI to work again, because it was really nice. And once I master XP, try installing on another W7, it would be good anyway to have more than one computer to run ConTeXt on, just in case Mr. Murphy visits the day before deadline or something! Been there, done that, Mari

Willi Egger

4:08 p.m.

Hi, by coincidence I installed ConTeXt on an XP-Windows today. What I did is: 1. Download the http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip 2. Unpack the zip. 3. run first-setup.bat 4. Added the texmf-fonts-folder and the texmf-project folder from the MacOsX installation. 5. run yourpath/setuptex.bat yourpath/tex/ 6. context --generate 7. context --make And it works. I use Scite under Windows and I have no exp. with TeXworks. The problem there is to learn TeXworks to use the minimals. Wscite was already there on the windows box. Because I did not use this for a long time I copied the *.properties files from /texmf-context/context/config/data/scite to the home directory of the user and placed the *.lua file in the wscite directory. It keeps working without any struggle. Willi On 12 Aug 2011, at 17:14, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

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I like to install ConTeXt on a Windows (XP) machine (so I can make an installation manual). I use: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Installation_and_use_on_Win...

The preferable setup would be with the GUI. But when I do this. I get: update failed Error code: 1 and Make failed Error code: 1

What is happening here?

I also tried (in c:\context): first-setup.bat --context=current

This looks okay, but when running context I get: mtxrun | forcing cache reload resolvers | resolving | unknown configuration file 'c:/contextminimal/texm f-local/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' resolvers | resolving | unknown configuration file 'c:/contextminimal/texm f-context/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' resolvers | resolving | unknown configuration file 'c:/contextminimal/texm f/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' resolvers | resolving | resolvers | resolving | warning: no lua configuration files found resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'c:/contextminimal/texmf' (runtim e) resolvers | methods | resolver: method=locators, how=uri, scheme=file, arg ument=c:/contextminimal/texmf resolvers | files | file locator 'c:/contextminimal/texmf' not found resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'c:/contextminimal/texmf-local' ( runtime) resolvers | methods | resolver: method=locators, how=uri, scheme=file, arg ument=c:/contextminimal/texmf-local resolvers | files | file locator 'c:/contextminimal/texmf-local' not found

resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'c:/contextminimal/texmf-context' (runtime) resolvers | methods | resolver: method=locators, how=uri, scheme=file, arg ument=c:/contextminimal/texmf-context resolvers | files | file locator 'c:/contextminimal/texmf-context' not fou nd resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'c:/contextminimal/texmf-mswin' ( runtime) resolvers | methods | resolver: method=locators, how=uri, scheme=file, arg ument=c:/contextminimal/texmf-mswin resolvers | files | file locator 'c:/contextminimal/texmf-mswin' not found

resolvers | resolving | resolvers | resolving | mtxrun | the resolver databases are not present or outdated resolvers | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua' resolvers | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua' resolvers | resolving | remembered file 'mtx-context.lua' resolvers | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua' mtxrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua'

So it looks like the script first-setup.bat needs some finetuning. The script context expects a file: c:/contextminimal/texmf-local/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' there is a directory: C:\context\tex\texmf-local but this directory is empty.

Is the script wrong, or am I doing something wrong? Under Linux I did not have a problem.

-- Cecil Westerhof ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

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