Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Lately, we get a lot of bug reports for miktex, which is problematic since none of us use miktex: I believe Hans has a fptex-ish system, and most other 'core' people are either linux or macintosh based.
The problem is, currently MikTeX (2.4) does not have a SDK, the maintainer said a SDK will be released in version 2.5, but the release date is not fixed yet.
MikTeX use a different way (compare to tetex) to load web2c config file, so the kpathsea library in MikTeX is just a wrapper of function calls to the MikTeX library. Without a SDK we have to fetch all the source code of MikTeX to compile such a library, which is rather difficult.
To name one problem I encounted, the Win32 binaries of afm2pl (from http://tex.aanhet.net/afm2pl/) does not work in MikTeX (because the reason I just described), but it's really hard to compile a binary (with libkpse support) by myself.
A volunteer for miktex would be brilliant (even better: someone who knows how to compile miktex executables).
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