Re: [Dvipng] dvipng and MikTeX

[Jan-Åke Larsson]

Rajneesh Hegde wrote:
> I obtained the libpng and GD libraries required for
> compiling dvipng but it's complaining about the
> kpathsea library. Is it possible to get the kpathsea
> library through MikTeX? My current "large" package set
> in MikTeX has a kpsewhich executable but doesn't have
> the library. If the full installation has the library,
> then I could just updae that instead of trying to
> compile kpathsea myself.

As far as I understand, MIKTeX has its own kpathsea library,
libkps and is compiled natively, not via cygwin.

> Also, MikTeX has a dvipng executable, but it's version
> 1.1. This doesn't seem to have the options needed to
> bypass ghostscript. Unfortunately, MikTeX update
> didn't update its copy of dvipng. Any suggestions?
> Thanks fr your time,

I'll contact Christian Schenk and ask him to update. As soon as
I've released dvipng 1.6.

/JÅ