MiKTeX on Windows 95

Tuesday, 14 February 2006 10:56 by CSchenk

My apologies to those who still use MiKTeX on Windows 95. When I released some binaries early in January, I didn't realize that it would break Windows 95 compatibility: My new build system cannot produce Windows 95 executables. Only one person has complained. So I suppose that there aren't so many Windows 95 users left.

To make it official: Support for MiKTeX on Windows 95 systems has ended on January 4, 2006.

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February 22. 2006 13:08

Thomas Fritz

Hallo Christian,

ich benutze zwar kein Windows 95 mehr, aber den Nachfolger. Ich hoffe, dass MiKTeX in Zukunft noch unter Windows 98 laufen wird. Oder hast du vor dies zu ändern?

Gruß,
Thomas

Thomas Fritz

February 22. 2006 23:47

Windows 98 stellt im Moment kein Problem dar. MiKTeX 2.5 wird auf jeden Fall unter Windows 98 lauffähig sein.

Christian Schenk

February 23. 2006 18:47

Thomas Fritz

Danke für die Auskunft.

Gruß,
Thomas

Thomas Fritz

March 1. 2006 03:03

ok

alex harijanto

March 1. 2006 04:03

I need this software to create my lecture note in intro. to matlab

alex harijanto

March 7. 2006 14:30

Bookseller

Glad this was posted. My main machine still runs Win95, although I have some newer machines I use for whatever won't run there. I find the later versions of Windows confusing bloatware with numerous unacceptable characteristics and increasingly repulsive interfaces. MS will probably finally drive me to learn Linux to avoid them.

Bookseller

March 8. 2006 21:45

Hmm. Wie häufig sollte man denn ein Update machen, um so etwas zu merken, und sich dann zu beschweren?
Zur Zeit läuft mein Windows 95 mit MikTeX ganz gut.
Kann man das einfach behalten, und nur neue Packages installieren?

Oder muss ich demnächst nach Linux umsteigen (und dann da eine andere Distribution nutzen)?

Paul

Paul Ebermann

March 9. 2006 04:09

> Kann man das einfach behalten, und nur neue Packages installieren?

Nein. Vielleicht noch eine Weile. Ich weiss es nicht (weil ich es nicht teste).

> Oder muss ich demnächst nach Linux umsteigen
> (und dann da eine andere Distribution nutzen)?

Soll das eine Drohung sein Wink

CSchenk

August 9. 2006 06:28

Ner0lph

Bonjour,
Est-ce aussi valable pour Windows 98 ?
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Hello, Is this also valid for Windows 98?
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Guten Tag, Ist es für Windows 98 auch gültig?
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(translater>http://tr.voila.fr)

Ner0lph

August 18. 2006 13:38

I am using Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 to build MiKTeX. This tool does not support building executables for Windows 95. If you leave out the MiKTeX GUI (Update, Yap, MO, MPM), than it should be possible to use any C++ compiler. The GUI applications rely on MSVC 8.0. Good luck!

CSchenk

August 18. 2006 14:12

Ulrich Diez

I am really very sad about this!
I have some MiKTeX 2.4 under Win95 and tried to run
the update-wizard in order to get the most recent (La)TeX
packages while omitting updating binaries, but this also
failed. I cannot imagine only one person complaining...
You write that your new build-system cannot produce
Win95-executables. Is building Win95-executables generally
not possible any more? As e.g. sources "rely" on new
compiler-specific features while no compiler for Win95-executables
exists for these features? Or is there a fair chance for
oneself to succeed in building Win95-executables from the
sources? If so: Which compilers/releases etc do you recommend?
(ActivePerl/[Watcom]/MinGW-gcc/cygwin-gcc/BCC/MS-VisualC/C++/ Basic/Java /Sun-Java/FreePascal/Borland...)

Ulrich

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