If you're looking for lualatex.exe on the search PATH, then this page may help:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/304319/is-there-an-equivalent-of-which-on-the-windows-command-line Regards, Henry On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 08:11:36 pm -0500, Brother Gabriel-Marie wrote: > Hi, all. I'm working on a wizard that will try and find the > path location of lualatex.exe in Windows. This is partly > for my Greg program, and if it is successful, I might create > an application to accompany Gregorio. > > Now, if the environmental variable is set correctly, there > is no problem fetching the path, for it is easy enough to > extract the value from the environmental var (but you don't > need to do that anyway since its an env var). > > /I am wondering if someone knows some obscure file or > registry setting or something that might lend a clue.// > //I have a question here, but I don't think there is a real > answer > <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28949456/how-to-know-the-location-of-lualatex-exe> > other > than the hard way: searching and guessing./ > > Now, there is the .texlive2012 or .texlive2013 directory > that gets created in the %userprofile% directory, but that's > no help. There's no files inside that lend any clue other > than the years in the folder name. > > NotatioAntiqua has a find-wizard like this, but I think it > just does a brute-force search. > > So I figure I'd guess like this: > First, I'd look in the %userprofile% directory for the > folders there and fetch the 2012 or 2013 from the folder > name. At least I can know what version is installed. > > Then, I know that lualatex.exe will always be installed like > this: > \win32\bin\lualatex.exe > But the user can change the location of directory below that. > > So I'd look through directories in this order: > c:\program files(x86)\texlive\2013\win32\bin\lualatex.exe > c:\program files\texlive\2013\win32\bin\lualatex.exe > c:\program files\texlive\win32\bin\lualatex.exe > c:\texlive\2013\win32\bin\lualatex.exe > c:\texlive\win32\bin\lualatex.exe > > Then, if those all failed, I'd look through other > letter-drives, which I could programmatically fetch a list > of. For example, if my script knows there is a d drive, I'd > look here: > d:\texlive\2013\win32\bin\lualatex.exe > d:\texlive\win32\bin\lualatex.exe > > That's what I've thought of so far. > Does anyone have any other ideas/advice? > > > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > Gregorio-users@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list Gregorio-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
