August 30. 2005 13:14

The problem Roman has occurs only when there is a space in the path name. I got hit by the same thing when I was trying to compile it in a subfolder of "My Downloads" but fixed it by moving it elsewhere.

I compiled it successfully on 10.3.9.

Morten Høgholm

August 30. 2005 13:50

I have compiled the binaries on a PPC G4 machine running MacOS X 10.2. No problems, IIRC.

I would appreciate, if you can make available more info (e.g., compiler version, OS version).
Use the annoucement thread to post the info (not this blog entry).

Christian Schenk

August 30. 2005 14:21

I thought it might be a good idea to test the code also on Mac OS X, especially because I'm also a Windows user and would like to use the same Tex distribution on all my machines. So I compiled the source code but it didn't work. The above mentioned libraries are installed. If I saw that right the problem is the name of the main harddisk volume on mac (default name): Macintosh HD. Here is the output of make:
Extracting /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Download/miktex-2.5.2064-beta-1/lib/../gl/.libs/libgl.a
(cd .libs/libmiktex-core.lax/libgl.a && ar x /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Download/miktex-2.5.2064-beta-1/lib/../gl/.libs/libgl.a)
ar: /Volumes/Macintosh: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [libmiktex-core.la] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2


Hope this is usefull and you can adapt Miktex also to the mac (the package manager would be a nice thing).

Thank you for your work

Roman

Roman

September 15. 2005 14:34

Christian,

Was wondering if you plan to introduce support for downloading through proxy, e.g. the setup wizzard takes the proxy settings from Internet Explorer?

This feature was recently introduced in the latest setup wizzard for the cygwin project, and I thought it would be a nice to have it here.

Please keep up your work. I am a very grateful user of your miktex package and it has been indispensable in completing my dissertation and several papers in the past.

Thank you,

jason

Jason Smith

September 16. 2005 00:35

Not sure what you mean. Proxy support (via IE settings) is already implemented in 2.4.

Setup Wizard 2.5 will get new settings page where you can configure the proxy host (i.e., bypassing IE settings).

I will have a look at the Cygwin installer.

Christian Schenk

September 16. 2005 09:03

Christian,

You are correct, the setup wizzard takes IE settings. This works perfect for me.

In cygwin, the only thing is that one can choose whether onnect directly, to use IE proxy settings or to specify alternative proxy.

Thank you for the quick reply!

jason

Jason Smith

September 21. 2005 04:00

One problem I have with the package manager is that the campus firewall here won't let .cab files through.

This is a problem with 2.4, but is there any way around this for 2.5, e.g. using zip archives?

Michael Gibson