Hi Christian
> I would like to include texmfstart.exe in the MiKTeX distribution, but I
> don't know how to build texmfstart.exe. Is there a simple recipe
> (Makefile) I can start with?
>
I'm switching from perl to ruby, so texmfstart is a ruby script. Say that the
next code is put in ruby2exe.cmd, then i can make a binary with:
ruby2exe texmfstart
which comes down to packaging the needed libraries + ruby core into an 'exe'.
It uses exerb.
@echo off
if exist "%~n1.rb" goto run
goto usage
:run
set exerbrubypath=c:\data\system\ruby.1.8.2
%exerbrubypath%\bin\ruby.exe -r exerb/mkexr %~n1.rb %2
%exerbrubypath%\bin\exerb.exe -v -C %exerbrubypath%\share\exerb\ruby182c.exc
%~n1.exr
del /q %~n1.exr %~n1.mak
goto end
:usage
echo usage: ruby2exe filename
:end
the rest of the programs, like texexec, will be started using texmfstart then
(which assumes ruby to be present on the system; if not, then one needs to make
texexec into an exe as well; there is a list of stubs in the latest context
distribution (scripts/context/stubs/...); not all of them are needed, e.g.
texutil is now integrated into texexec)
i use common libraries to figure out the paths, and i hope that i did the
miktex handling right; (i'd like to test miktex using my own trees, but it's
kind of hard to set the additional trees that i use); anyhow, in the ruby
variants it's more easy for me to handle miktex; for the moment it assumes
kpsewhich to be present, but i can as well call another database program)
Hans
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