[Texmacs-dev] Re: win32 TeXmacs installation problems

[Dan Martens]

Hello Stephan,

The problem where TeXmacs will just flash a window and exit was normally caused 
by Guile and the GUILE_LOAD_PATH not set properly.  Guile would just exit in 
the gh_enter method.  
As for your problem, I am a little stumped.  To test, I installed the build on 
a completely fresh Win95 machine today, and it ran fine.  There are 2 more 
requirements that I discovered today that were hidden to me previously.  1) You 
must have Winsock 2 installed (don't know why...but windows wants it) and 2) 
You must have msvcirt.dll somewhere in your path.  These probably will not be 
the cause of your errors as an error message dialog would be displayed when a 
DLL fails to load.
I have not had a problem with it not working before this.  The only thing I can 
suggest is to make sure your environment variables are "SYSTEM" variables and 
are set correctly.  Here is the procedure I go through when installing on a 
fresh machine:

For this example, build directory will be in c:\texmacs
1) Copy the following build structure to directory
04/03/2003  09:21a      <DIR>          .
04/03/2003  09:21a      <DIR>          ..
09/14/2001  11:18p               4,096 guile.exe
03/31/2003  01:36p      <DIR>          ice-9
09/14/2001  11:18p             443,392 libguile.dll
09/14/2001  11:18p               7,168 libguilereadline.dll
01/23/2001  10:50a              34,795 libregex.dll
12/07/1999  08:00a             995,383 mfc42.dll
12/07/1999  08:00a              77,878 msvcirt.dll
07/22/2002  02:05p             290,869 msvcrt.dll
03/31/2003  01:41p      <DIR>          TEX
04/03/2003  09:46a      <DIR>          TeXmacs-1.0.0.17
04/03/2003  09:46a           3,096,576 texmacswin32.exe 

2) Install TEX (default c:\texmf)
3) Set Environment variables
--if windows < win2k, then add set VARIABLE=VALUE line in config.sys
--if windows >= win2k, then use the environment variable dialog in properties 
of My Computer

GUILE_LOAD_PATH=c:\texmacs
TEXMACS_PATH=c:\texmacs\TeXmacs-1.0.0.17
TEX_HOME=c:\texmf
TEX_TFM_PATH=c:\texmf\fonts\tfm

4) Install Winsock2 if using win95 from 
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WUAdminTools/S_WUNetworkingTools/W95Sockets2/Default.asp

This has never failed for me, so aside from this, I don't know your environment 
and I may not be able to determine this problem.  When I obtain access to the 
FTP server at texmacs.org, I will upload source and you may debug if you wish.
Please let me know how you make out.

Dan
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:49:05   
 Stephan Mucha wrote:
>hello dan,
>
>i set the paths as you recommended, downloaded guile.exe and copied
>the new TM win binary. Unfortunately, it still doesn't start, the only
>thing is a window appearing for a moment (almost invisible, because
>instantly disappearing). i see no error messages. guile works!
>
>thank you very much for further advices.
>
>
>-- 
>regards,
>stephan
>
>
>DM> Hello Stephan,
>
>DM> In your case, the system variables should be set up as follows.
>
>DM> GUILE_LOAD_PATH=d:\programme\WinTeXmacs
>DM> TEXMACS_PATH=d:\programme\WinTeXmacs
>DM> TEX_HOME=w:\texmf
>
>DM> I have attached my newest version which solves some issues with font 
>compilation. To operate correctly, please set the variable 
>TEX_TFM_PATH=w:\texmf\fonts\tfm.
>DM> In my http://www.dannet.ca/texmacs directory, I now have the guile.exe 
>program as well for windows.  If the above does not work, please download 
>guile.exe into your d:\programme\WinTeXmacs and
>DM> see if it runs.
>DM> What exactly is happening when you run it?  Do you see a DOS windows with 
>any messages? Is it exiting right away?
>
>DM> Please let me know, and sorry for the problems.
>
>DM> Dan 
>DM> --
>
>DM> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:49:53   
>DM>  Stephan Mucha wrote:
>>>hello dan,
>>>
>>>
>>>i downloaded your win texmacs project and tried to install it, but it
>>>does not work.
>>>as i have a working miktex distribution on a network drive, i tried to
>>>run texmacswin32 without installing the tex packages. i made the directory
>>>d:/programme/WinTeXmacs and decompressed the ice-9 directory, the
>>>TeXmacs-1.0.0.17 directory , and the dlls and the executable there.
>>>
>>>so "dir d:/programme/WinTeXmacs" yields (german win2k version):
>>>
>>> Datenträger in Laufwerk D: hat keine Bezeichnung.
>>> Datenträgernummer: 2C48-1513
>>>
>>> Verzeichnis von d:\programme\WinTeXmacs
>>>
>>>02.04.2003  12:16       <DIR>          .
>>>02.04.2003  12:16       <DIR>          ..
>>>02.04.2003  12:15       <DIR>          ice-9
>>>14.09.2001  23:18              443.392 libguile.dll
>>>14.09.2001  23:18                7.168 libguilereadline.dll
>>>23.01.2001  10:50               34.795 libregex.dll
>>>07.12.1999  08:00              995.383 mfc42.dll
>>>22.07.2002  14:05              290.869 msvcrt.dll
>>>02.04.2003  12:15       <DIR>          TeXmacs-1.0.0.17
>>>31.03.2003  13:29            2.940.928 texmacswin32.exe
>>>               6 Datei(en)      4.712.535 Bytes
>>>               4 Verzeichnis(se),  11.511.771.136 Bytes frei
>>>
>>>as system variables i defined
>>>
>>>GUILE_LOAD_PATH=d:\programme\WinTeXmacs\ice-9
>>>TEX_HOME=w:\texmf\miktex
>>>TEXMACS_PATH=d:\programme\WinTeXmacs\TeXmacs-1.0.0.17
>>>
>>>(GUILE_LOAD_PATH=d:\programme\WinTeXmacs didn't work, too.)
>>>
>>>
>>>any ideas? what is wrong?
>>>thanks for any help!
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>regards,
>>>
>>>stephan
>>>
>>>
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