Thanks. That helped me sort out preview-mode on Windows. (Linux has always been easier for me.)

I think I found a way to use the precompiled AUCTeX with EmacsW32. But first, I’ll explain why installation by compilation didn’t work for me.

The cygwin way didn’t work for me. First error was that make was not found, like mks said above. So I installed cygwin’s make. But then another error: autoconf not found. So I installed autoconf. But then yet another error: (X)Emacs not found. At that moment, I gave up cygwin approach and tried with MSYS, as mentioned in the AUXTeX homepage.

But MSYS compilation gave the same error: autoconf not found.

So I downloaded the precompiled AUCTeX and decompressed the zip, and after reading el files in it and, I decided I had to add the following in my emacs initialization file:

(load “c:/auctex-11.85-e23.1-msw/site-lisp/site-start.el”)
(require ‘tex-mik)
(eval-after-load ‘info
‘(add-to-list ‘Info-directory-list “c:/Program Files/Emacs/share/info”))
(setq TeX-auto-save t)
(setq TeX-parse-self t)

It is the same initialization code in this blog post except for the load part. The path in the (load …) points to the site-start.el file in the precompiled AUCTEX files.

Hello,

I’ve several tune up apart from your helpful writings.

since using C:\ is rather “Windowish”, we may simply use:

./configure –prefix=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Emacs/emacs/ –with-texmf -dir=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/MiKTeX\ 2.6/ –with-lispdir=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Emacs/site-lisp/

which will work the same way.

Also, for the GS viewer, the location might as well at ;

/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/GPLGS/gswin32c.exe

Wierd. It seems that “Preview at point” is what doesn’t work. “Preview document” works fine but when I “preview at point”, the images are put everywhere but the right place. Does “preview at point” work for you?

Again, running the “official” emacs version AucTex recommends and also NTemacs… hoping that perhaps emacsw32 works better…

Hi Luke, I just installed this beast on my windows box too. However, I’m using the version of emacs they recommend and I also tried NTemacs. Unfortunately, the rendered equations are all over the place — that’s not how it’s supposed to work right? The rendered equations are supposed to replace the LaTex code, right?

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Have you tried pointing it to C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs instead? I’m guessing it wants the path to the emacs installation folder, not to the bin folder.

Are you using these attributes for running configure?

$ ./configure	--prefix='c:/Program Files/Emacs/emacs/' 
		--with-texmf-dir='c:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.5' 
		--with-lispdir='c:/Program Files/Emacs/site-lisp'

Also, make sure that EmacsW32 is indeed installed in C:\Program Files\Emacs. :)

Hi, again

I installed de make package, but now appears this.

checking if C:\Programs......\Emacs\emacs\bin is XEmacs... cat ./conftest -1648: No such file or directory
configure:error:Unable to run C:\Programs....\Emacs\emacs\bin, aborting!

I am using cygwin, with ghostscript and Miktex 2.5. Besides, I putted bin’s directions (Miktex, Ghostscript and emacs) in the path of windows.

Thanks a lot.

Oh, wait… Are you using Cygwin? I thought this was the Linux based thread. If you are using Cygwin then you have to use Setup.exe (the same one you used to install it initially – or you can re-download it from the website) and then just pick make from the list of packages.

It meeds you need to install the make package – you know, the one you use to build software from source. ;)

If you are on Ubuntu/Debian you can just try:

aptitude install make

or

apg-get install make

On Fedora/Red Hat you can do:

yum install make

On Mandriva you can do:

urpmi make

I’m pretty sure you are not on Gentoo because then you would have to have make installed by default for emerge to even work properly. :)

These commands will download and install the package and dependencies for you. There might be quite a few. In fact you will likely find more errors like this when running configure – it just means you need to track down the necessary packages and install them prior to compiling. :)