[Wikitex-l] wikitex and windows

[Peter Danenberg]

> Is there any windows specific hack I need to to do?


     I'm going to attach a message, Dr. Rajaraman, from Sal-
vatore Ingala, who actually got WikiTeX working on  Windows;
would  you  mind  confirming whether his directions work for
you?

     See attached.

Best, Peter
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>      Thanks  for  the  message,  Salvatore; someone else was
> asking about Windows as  well,  and  it  appears  as  though
> everything which WikiTeX needs is available on Windows:
>
>      dvipng        http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvipng/
>      LaTeX         http://www.miktex.org/
>      ImageMagick   http://www.imagemagick.org/
>      bash          http://www.cygwin.com/

Well, I was missing bash :)
But this wasn't the only problem...


> It's simply a matter of someone putting everything together.

Yeah, et the very end I succeeded in making it work, but I had to modify
several things:

- In several places, I had to change the '/' used in the paths with '\\'
- In wikitex.php, I changed

$strBash = "$strRendPath/wikitex.sh %s %s %s"; // usage: wikitex FILE MODULE
OUTPATH

to

$strBash = "bash $strRendPath\\wikitex.sh %s %s %s"; // usage: wikitex FILE
MODULE OUTPATH

because in windows .sh files are not executable. Also, the row

if (!is_executable(substr($strBash, 0, strpos($strBash, ' ')))) {

was generating a parse error because it seems it's not supported under
Windows until PHP 5.0, and I've an early version.

- wikitex.sh had a problem  on the row:

cd "$(dirname ${0})/tmp"

I think it failed because ${0} doesn't contain what exspected. I temporarily
resolved writing the full path, but this should of course be fixed in some
better way.

Also, this row was crashing, don't know why:

 find . -name "${HASH}*" ! -name "${HASH}" ! -name "${HASH}*${EXT}" ! -name
"${HASH}${MID}" ! -name "${HASH}${MAP}" ! -name "${HASH}${CHE}" -exec rm {}
\;

so I removed it (and this is bad...)

Also, the rows using "echo" failed, I think because "echo" is a binary and
is not included with cygwin. I "solved" by deleting

echo "${STR}" > "${HASH}${CHE}"

(and this is VERY bad :-)) and changing

echo "${STR}"

to

printf "${STR}"

Now it works... but all the bad things I made to your program have to be
fixed :)
If you can suggest me alternative solutions to the rows I removed so to
delete intermediate files and reenable caching, it would be great :) (I'm
not experienced in bash scripting nor in php programming).

Now it is almost working, I must say wikitex is very fine, and if I'll make
the website I'm planning, I will use it for math and graph rendering :). As
far as you know, is there any security problem with this packages?

Regards, Spider

PS: Sorry for my bad English, but it's not my mother language :-)