#346 Include Asymptote

[AndréC]

Can you include Asymptote in MikTeX as is done with TexLive?

[karl koeller]

A new package Asymptote has been added to the MiKTeX distribution, but it lacks the executables.

See

https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote/binaries

[Christian Schenk]

The asymptote package contains input files only. The binary package (miktex-asymptote-bin) will be released later.

[karl koeller]

Note that asy.exe doesn't work as expected.

Try, for example, with the file bundled with asymptote,

http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote/doc/latexusage.tex

the following

pdflatex latexusage
asy latexusage-*.asy

The response of asy.exe is

error: could not load module 'latexusage-*.asy'

[Christian Schenk]

This is expected behaviour. Try running

pdflatex latexus*.tex

Reason is, that the Windows command line interpreter cmd does not expand wildcard arguments.

If you need wildcard expansion, you can try another shell (e.g., bash).

[karl koeller]

Note that the same command

asy latexusage-*.asy

works as expected under Windows with TeX Live.

[Christian Schenk]

Yes, maybe. TeX Live for Windows assimilated the Cygwin executable (asy.exe). MiKTeX asy.exe is a native Windows executable. As stated above, all MiKTeX executables depend on the shell to expand wildcard arguments. I am not planning to change this. But please feel free to create a bug report.

[Christian Schenk]

Since MiKTeX asy.exe is new and experimental, I will enable internal wildcard expansion for this executable, i.e, asy latexusage-*.asy will work when started from cmd.exe.

[karl koeller]

Thank you very much for this.

[AndréC]

Hi,
Thank you for including Asymptote in the new version of MikTeX, I am reporting an error.

When I compile from a command prompt, (powershell on windows 10) the code below that produces a playable dice with the mouse directly I have the following error:

MiKTeX 2.9/asymptote/three.asy: 2905.13: runtime: to support onscreen rendering, please install glut library, run ./configure, and recompile

But when I compile the same document included in a Tex file with the compilation Pdflatex-> Asymptote-Pdflatex, it works.

import three;
    currentprojection =orthographic((5,2,3));
    currentlight=nolight;
    settings.tex="latex"; // Moteur LaTeX utilisé pour la compilation (latex, pdflatex, ...)
    settings.outformat="pdf"; // Format de sortie ; eps par défaut
    settings.prc=true; // Format PRC de la figure ; vrai par défaut
    settings.render=-1; // Rendu des figures ; -1 par défaut
    size(6cm,0);
    real a = 0.05;
    real h=0.001;
    path  carre = box ((0,0),(84a,84a)),
          disque = scale(9a)*unitcircle,
          patron1[] = shift(42a,42a)*disque,
          patron2[] = shift(14a,70a)*disque^^shift(70a,14a)*disque,
          patron3[] = shift(14a,70a)*disque^^shift(70a,14a)*disque^^shift(42a,42a)*disque,
          patron4[] = shift(14a,14a)*disque^^shift(14a,70a)*disque^^shift(70a,14a)*disque^^shift(70a,70a)*disque,
          patron5[] = shift(14a,14a)*disque^^shift(14a,70a)*disque^^shift(70a,14a)*disque^^shift(70a,70a)*disque^^shift(42a,42a)*disque,
          patron6[] = shift(14a,14a)*disque^^shift(14a,70a)*disque^^shift(70a,14a)*disque^^shift(70a,70a)*disque^^shift(42a,70a)*disque^^shift(42a,14a)*disque;

    transform3 tX=shift((84a+h)*X), tY=shift((84a+h)*Y), tZ=shift((84a+h)*Z); 

    path3 facegauche[] =shift(0,-h,0)*path3(patron6,ZXplane),
          facedroite[] =path3(patron1,ZXplane),
          faceavant[] =path3(patron2,YZplane),
          facearriere[] =shift(-h,0,0)*path3(patron5,YZplane),   
          facehaut[] =path3(patron4,XYplane),      
          facebas[] =shift(0,0,-h)*path3(patron3,XYplane); 

    draw(O--4.2X ^^ O--4.2Y ^^ O--4.2Z);      
    draw(scale3(84a)*unitcube, surfacepen=white);
    draw(box(O, 84a*(X+Y+Z)), gray);
    draw(surface(facegauche),blue);
    draw(surface(tY*facedroite),blue);
    draw(surface(tZ*facehaut),blue);
    draw(surface(facebas),blue);
    draw(surface(facearriere),blue);
    draw(surface(tX*faceavant),blue);

What should I do ?