Re: [Reduce-algebra-developers] install reduce for TeXmacs on windows

[Rainer S. <rai...@gm...>]

This seems to be a problem/limitation of the Windows version of TeXmacs.

I traced file accesses and found that on Windows, it looks for a file
tm_reduce.exe - which doesn't exist. This is TeXmacs's general mechanism for
plugins: to start plugin xyz, it runs tm_xyz.

On, e.g. Linux, it looks for tm_reduce (without the .exe) and finds a shell
script that is part of TeXmacs.  Of course, on Windows, you cannot simply run a
shell script, but you could can run an .exe, a .bat or a .cmd file instead. But
the Windows version never looks only for the .exe.

To get this working, two things must happen:
a) The Window version of TeXmacs must not only look for tm_reduce.exe, but also
for tm_reduce.bat.
b) Once this is done, you need a tm_reduce.bat file. This is easy to do, by
translating the contents of the TeXmacs\plugins\reduce\bin\tm_reduce shell
script into something like these two lines (untested!):

set TEXMACS_REDUCE_PATH="%TEXMACS_PATH%\plugins\reduce"
redpsl

Another possibility would be to create a tm_reduce.exe file that does exactly
the same.

A final note: in recent version of Reduce, an extra .reducerc or reduce.rc is no
longer necessary.

  Rainer


On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 15:15 +0200, Rudolf Sykora wrote:

 > Dear list,
 >
 >
 > I am trying to run reduce as a TeXmacs session on windows, and when I
 > start the reduce session I see a red Busy... message.
 >
 > Can anybody tell me what I should do?
 >
 > I have the Reduce\bin directory in my PATH (otherwise TeXMacs would not
 > see it at all), and I have even tried to copy reducerc from a directory
 > within TeXmacs distribution to my home (both under ruducerc and
 > .reducerc) to no avail.
 >
 >
 > Thanks
 > Ruda
 >
 >
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   Rainer Schöpf