Re: [Gretl-devel] building under windows: pdflatex

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote: > this is not urgent, but before I forget (sorry, don't have time to re-read > the doc right now, perhaps the answer is already in there): When building > under Windows (mingw/msys) I cannot build the addons, because the configure > script doesn't find pdflatex. > > Can I point to the existing pdflatex from the Miktex distribution or do I > have to install an extra Tex distribution inside mingw? It should be sufficient to add the directory containing MiKTeX's pdflatex executable to your PATH under MSYS2. See section 3.1 of the guide "Building gretl on MS Windows".