[Texmacs-dev] Qt-TeXmacs on Windows repeatedly fails to start

[Gareth McCaughan]

On two machines running Windows XP I have had the following problem:

I download the Qt TeXmacs installer and run it, without obvious problems;

I run TeXmacs; texmacs.exe runs for perhaps half a second and then exits

without visibly doing anything; it does this consistently if I try to run it again.

 

(These are the only machines I've tried to use Qt-TeXmacs on. I have never

successfully run it on any machine.)

 

The page at http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/winqt.en.html says

that after building from source the executable will crash the first time it's run;

this doesn't seem to be the same issue since the executable crashes *every*

time it's run.

 

Is this a known issue? If not, would it be useful for me to investigate further

(e.g., by building from source myself and seeing whether I get the same failure,

and digging further if so?) If it is a known issue, is there a fix or a workaround?

 

Thanks!

 

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Gareth McCaughan