Re: [MiKTeX] ps2pdf working in DOS console, but not in MSYS console

[Vincent B. <vin...@ho...>]

Hello Ulrike,
 
After some investigation I had also found that there is a ps2pdf.bat batch script in MiKTeX.
 
Anyway, I have solved my problem: the /c/Windows/system32 was missing from my PATH under MSYS, so ps2pdf.exe could not find cmd.exe to launch a .bat file.
 
The reason for my PATH being this way is that it is explicitly set in my .bash_profile in order to handle some issue with using MSYS perl instead of another non MSYS perl that is also installed on my machine.
 
VBR,
   Vincent.

 
> To: mik...@li...
> From: li...@ni...
> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:34:14 +0100
> Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] ps2pdf working in DOS console, but not in MSYS console
> 
> Am Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:38:22 +0100 schrieb Vincent Belaïche:
> 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I have MiKTeX 2.9 64bit installed on Windows7.
> > 
> > When I open a cmd.exe DOS console, and I type
> > 
> >    ps2pdf --help
> > 
> > then I get the usual output with exit status 0
> > 
> > When I open a bash MSYS console (with MSYS 64bit edition), and I type
> > the same command, then I get no output at all and exit status is 255.
> > 
> > So there is something in the MSYS environment preventing ps2pdf to work.
> > 
> > I checked with MSYS that Ghostscript is in the path (if I type:
> > 
> >    gswin64c --help
> > 
> > then I get the normal output), and I also added some export GS
> > environment variable pointing at gswin64c.exe, but this does not help.
> 
> The ps2pdf from miktex doesn't use gswin
> 
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/214655/2388
> 
> (debugging ps2pdf isn't easy, as the exe call a .bat which calls
> other .bat which tries to find a ghostscript... . Make sure that you
> don't have other versions around ...)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ulrike Fischer 
> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
> 
> 
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