Re: AUCTex in WSL cannot find TeX Live in Win

[Ikumi Keita]

Hi petepetite75,

>>>>> petepetite75@my.mail.de writes:
> AUCTex in WSL cannot find TeX Live in Win When trying to compile/
> pdf-preview a tex-file, minibuffer spits out:

> ERROR: AUCTeX cannot find a working TeX distribution. Make sure you have one 
> and that TeX binaries are in PATH environment variable  

I don't use wsl, so I'm not at all confident with this issue. Maybe the
output of `M-x TeX-submit-bug-report RET' would be helpful.

> When I tell auctex in wsl-emacs to compile/ 'pdflatex' helloworld.tex,
> it by default tries to do this within _wsl_. So it is bound to
> complain, as there is no TexLive in wsl.

> The right and as we've seen above working command to compile/
> 'pdflatex' the file in TexLive _Windows_ is pdflatex._EXE_.

> So it seems all I would have to do is tell auctex to execute
> pdflatex.exe, instead of just pdflatex.

Currently that seems most probable for me. I guess your emacs thinks
that it's running on linux, and sets up `TeX-shell' to bash. And I guess
that wsl bash needs ".exe" to run windows binaries on the PATH.

> Does this make any sense? If so: now how/ where in auctex can I change
> the default command accordingly?

If the above guess is correct, you have to set at least `TeX-command'
and `LaTeX-command' to "tex.exe" and "latex.exe" respectively (without
"pdf" prepended). Try inserting
(setq TeX-command "tex.exe"
      LaTeX-command "latex.exe")
in your personal init file. (Or you can use customize interface using
`M-x customize-option RET TeX-command RET' and `M-x customize-option RET
LaTeX-command RET')

However, I'm not sure whether those treatments are enough or not.

Regards,
Ikumi Keita
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