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2772 :: Building PDF docs on Windows takes hours?

• anta40 (orginal) [2017-01-31T08:55:47+01:00] view original

  I'm running 32-bit Windows 10. I have 2 Nim directories:

  1. C:\nim (the main directory, C:\nim\bin is available in PATH)
  2. C:\Users\CSL-NB-064\Downloads\Software\Nim\nim-git (latest stuff from git, which is compiled and copied into C:\nim)

  I tried "koch pdf", and after about 15 minutes there were still no PDFs created so I aborted it.

  
  nimweb.nim(357, 10) Hint: 'dir' is declared but not used [XDeclaredButNotUsed]
  nimweb.nim(377, 6) Hint: 'nimweb.genNewsLink(title: string)' is declared but not used [XDeclaredButNotUsed]
  nimweb.nim(294, 6) Hint: 'nimweb.pathPart(d: string)' is declared but not used [XDeclaredButNotUsed]
  Hint:  [Link]
  Hint: operation successful (29816 lines compiled; 0.904 sec total; 35.035MiB peekmem; Debug Build) [SuccessX]
  Hint: C:\Users\CSL-NB-064\Downloads\Software\Nim\nim-git\tools\nimweb.exe --pdf web/website.ini --putenv:nimversion=0.16.1 [Exec]
  pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014/W32TeX)
  kpathsea version 6.2.0
  Copyright 2014 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
  There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
  covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
  the Lesser GNU General Public License.
  For more information about these matters, see the file
  named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
  Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
  Compiled with libpng 1.6.10; using libpng 1.6.10
  Compiled with zlib 1.2.8; using zlib 1.2.8
  Compiled with xpdf version 3.03
  bin\nim.exe rst2tex --hint[Conf]:off --hint[Path]:off --hint[Processing]:off --putenv:nimversion=0.16.1 doc\manual.rst
  pdflatex doc\manual.tex
  Run

  As you can see, I have TexLive 2014 installed. Anyone on Windows experiencing the same issue? I already have AV & Windows Defender disabled, BTW.

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• Araq (orginal) [2017-01-31T09:01:05+01:00] view original

  Guess: LaTeX prints an error message and waits on stdin for you to "correct" the error. IMO TeX cannot even be machine generated properly, it's an abomination.

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• flyx (orginal) [2017-01-31T09:40:06+01:00] view original

  Well, this can be fixed by passing -interaction=nonstopmode to the TeX processor.

  Edit: PR

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• flyx (orginal) [2017-01-31T11:48:11+01:00] view original

  btw, this does not fix your problem, it only fixes the problem that koch pdf does not quit when pdflatex fails. You can of course execute pdflatex doc\manual.tex yourself and see what happens. The file should exist after koch pdf fails (it cleans it up on success).

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• Araq (orginal) [2017-01-31T13:31:12+01:00] view original

  Thanks for the PR, it should help in any case.

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• anta40 (orginal) [2017-02-04T18:22:30+01:00] view original

  Latest update: koch pdf still doesn't work

  
  nimweb.nim(361, 10) Hint: 'dir' is declared but not used [XDeclaredButNotUsed]
  nimweb.nim(381, 6) Hint: 'nimweb.genNewsLink(title: string)' is declared but not used [XDeclaredButNotUsed]
  nimweb.nim(297, 6) Hint: 'nimweb.pathPart(d: string)' is declared but not used [XDeclaredButNotUsed]
  CC: compiler_nimweb
  CC: stdlib_algorithm
  Hint:  [Link]
  Hint: operation successful (29847 lines compiled; 3.827 sec total; 33.004MiB; Debug Build) [SuccessX]
  Hint: c:\users\csl-nb-064\downloads\software\nim\nim-git\tools\nimweb.exe --pdf web/website.ini --putenv:nimversion=0.16.1 [Exec]
  pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014/W32TeX)
  kpathsea version 6.2.0
  Copyright 2014 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
  There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
  covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
  the Lesser GNU General Public License.
  For more information about these matters, see the file
  named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
  Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
  Compiled with libpng 1.6.10; using libpng 1.6.10
  Compiled with zlib 1.2.8; using zlib 1.2.8
  Compiled with xpdf version 3.03
  bin\nim.exe rst2tex --hint[Conf]:off --hint[Path]:off --hint[Processing]:off --putenv:nimversion=0.16.1 doc\manual.rst
  pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode doc\manual.tex
  external program failed
  Error: execution of an external program failed: 'c:\users\csl-nb-064\downloads\software\nim\nim-git\tools\nimweb.exe --pdf web/website.ini --putenv:nimversion=0.16.1'
  FAILURE
  Run

  pdflatex doc\manual.tex works fine, though.

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• flyx (orginal) [2017-02-06T10:36:22+01:00] view original

  It is unfortunate that the command, called directly, does not reproduce the error. I made another PR which will show the failed command's output when doing ./koch pdf so we can see what's happening.

  pdflatex can use quite some memory, and I've seen it fail due to memory restrictions. I cannot think of a reason why it should have restricted memory in this context, but I don't really know about Windows internals.

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