Hi listers,

Does someone know a Freepascal library or a a command line tool non instalable to manage LateX documents in Windows system? What I basicly want to do is to compile LateX documents without installing any tool, in other words, compiling it by means of Freepascal or by means of a non instalable tool.

In our previous episode, Luciano de Souza said:

Latex has various internal caches, so that will probably be hard.

It would be a lot easier if you can assume that the installation path will remain the same, then archiving a texlive distribution might get you somewhere.

Note that the FPC latex docs do not compile on windows yet, but it is getting close.

Problems that I know of

1) fpdoc is cmdline based, and the used cmdline is larger than windows allows. Michael developed a project system for this, but this still has to be migrated.

2) the way the date is automatically retrieved by MAKE has problems. Can easily be remedied by simply editing a date.inc.