MiKTeX, GS, GSViewer, ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick and LyX

Thank you for imageMagick portable!

I get the xxPortable.exe, but when I start them all I get is blinking icon in the system tray. I can then "lock" the application or "unlock" it.. On LyxPortable, when I rightclick the icon and click "Start Lyx" I get a runtime error:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime error!
Program: E:\Applications\LyxPortable\App\LyX\15\bin\lyxc.exe
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

After that I get another error:

AutoIt Error
Line -1:
ErrorL Unable to execute the external program.
The system cannot find the path specified.

Any ideas on what to do?

Cheers,
Nico

It sounds like a relative/absolute path problem in LyX. I had the same with Texmaker. I think we both need some help with working around it.

Ist das schon das ganz neue Lyx 1.5.3 - so wie das ganz neue MiKTeX 2.7?

Gruß
Matthias

Hi everybody,

I just installed GSView and Ghostscript as PortableApps to my computer on work.

But if I open them they online start up as two blinking Icons.

Is there any Possibility to use Ghostscript or GSView to generate a PDF - Whats wrong with them? - Why are the icons just blinking?

Note: Maybe they doesn`t work because on my computer on work I doesn`t have any rights to write to the Windows-Registry or doing some installation.

Greetings,
Patrick

The launchers are writen in AutoIt. If someone would help me to migrate them to NSIS, I would like it.
Why?

Hi, I have tried to follow your instructions in order to make lyx work as a portable application. I got the same error in 2 different computers. They have different OS, win2000 and winXP. Any update on your installation instructions? The error is similar to the ones reported in previous comments.
BR\

explain me what is GSViewerPortable and GhostscriptPortable for and how to use it?

I'm trying but no idea...

Dear Mr. Ehrlich,

You are my hero. Creating portable LyX was a fine and beautiful decision. I would like to know how you did it. Perhaps you could share with me your AutoIT code? I would like to create a portable WinEdt app. WinEdt is a shareware program, for which I have a license, that is optimized for large projects such as my PhD thesis. I use LyX for small tasks like hw, but I want to use a portable version of WinEdt to write my doctoral thesis.

Quite frankly, you've already done all the hard work, all I have to do is imitate what you did to link winedt to miktek and gsviewer.

Please send me an email to caortiz.phy@gmail.com whenever you can!

Carlos

p.s. I apologize for not speaking german. If it is any consolation, my native tongue is spanish, so we're both in a similar boat here.

First of all, thank you for the effort you have taken to create a portable latex environment. Never the less, without documentation our effort is wasted. Here is what I figured from the undocumented code of the miktex application.

All entries from the tray menu can also be activated by calling MiKTeXPortable.exe with a parameter.

lock: activates the portable miktex environment
unlock: deactivates the portable miktex environment
package: opens the package manager - does not work with an already activated env.
options: opens the package manager - does not work with an already activated env.
update: ? updates the application ? - does not work with an already activated env.
solvecrash: ?don't know? - should restore the original registry settings
exit: removes the tray icon without deactivating the portable miktex environment

attention: I somehow managed to mess up my local non portable miktex installation by trying out this portable solution. Most likely I did this by clicking the Solve Crash button. So be aware. You can watch some effects of lock/unlock by observing
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MiKTeX.org\MiKTeX

Suggestions to the author:

• activate the environment at the start of the application
• deactivate the environment at the exit of the application
• remove lock and unlock options
• allow package, options and update only if activated
• revise solvecrash
• remove the blink effect of the tray icon

I don't know autoit and can't perform these changes on my own.

Hi,

this is a nice piece of software. Thanks a lot for the work. Unfortunately my Trend Micro OfficeScan deletes some Applications from my USB-Stick saying that they contain the WORM_AUTORUN.TI virus.

Why is that?

Hi,

schöne Arbeit mit der portablen Lyx-Version. Vielen Dank dafür. Dummerweise schlägt mein Trend Micro OfficeScan Alarm und löscht die im Titel genannten EXE-Files von meinem USB-Stick, weil sie wohl mit WORM_AUTORUN.TI infiziert seien.

Warum passiert das?

Thank you so much for this portable app. I have been using Lyx and was wondering if I can use it as a portable app on other people's computers.

This was just what the doctor ordered.

After the MiKTeXPortable-2.6.paf.exe (or MiKTeXPortable-2.7.paf.exe) is extracted, I run the program, and choose lock from the icon - the very first time, an initialization starts, which for me fails with

Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file

in initexmf.exe (the last about "default config file" I'm not sure 100% since the command prompt window holds for only a couple of seconds, and will not let me copy text from it) ...

[I found that \MiKTeXPortable\Other\source\MikTeXPortable.au3 contains the commands:

RunWait($path & "\initexmf.exe --dump --mklinks", $path)
RunWait($path & "\initexmf.exe --mkmaps", $path)
RunWait($path & "\initexmf.exe --update-fndb", $path)

Then if I run initexmf --mkmaps -n I get mkfntmap, and when I finally run mkfntmap, I get:
mkfntmap: The config file could not be found.

I found that mkfntmap reads a "updmap.cfg" file; however, that one is present in \MiKTeXPortable\App\MiKTeX\2.7\miktex\config ?? \bin\tex_prtbl\MiKTeXPortable\MiKTeXPortable.exe lock to start the environment before running mkfntmap

and here I read that Well, that message doesn't say that it can't find the fonts, it says that it can't find the fonts.conf file. ]

The same goes for both Miktex 2.6 or 2.7... Of course, if after this I run LyX, it doesn't start...
Any suggestions?

[Edit] Ok, I think I got this solved.. Biggest problem is to get some debug messages back TO do that, run everything from command line - run the environemnt first - and call lyxc instead of lyx (lyxc is apparently config, and it was left hanging as a process each time I unsccesfully tried to run lyx):

cd \LyXPortable
\LyXPortable> LyXPortable.exe lock
\LyXPortable> App\LyX\15\bin\lyxc.exe

this finally said that it couldn't find Python... So, while still in environment (that is, within LyXPortable.exe lock) command prompt, I tried

\LyXPortable> set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Python24

as I had Python from before, ran lyxc again, started getting "+checking for package", lyxc passed, and lyx started
[end EDIT]

Hi

does anyone know how to use the MikTex 2.7 Portable together with Texmaker 1.7.1 USB Version?
I tried to lock the Miktex but that didn't help.
Do I have to change the command line options in Texmaker?
Wich other applications do I have to Install?
Do the exe file have to be in the same directory?

thx Ars

Please, anyone can re-upload these apps, I realy need give a try on it.

Thanks in advance.

I too would like to see this uploaded. If anyone has it, could they please comment here, or contact me at shellshocked at gmail.com?

Have a look here folks:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableappsorp/

Can you please upload the files again?

Hello.
Could anyone update the package?

Thanks.

Hi,

I've recently published Portable Lyx 2.0 on http://portable-lyx.impossible-exil.info. You may want to give it a try.

Best regards,

BrokenClock

Anyone who want to take this project over?

Hi,

Could you recreate this package?

Thank You.