[tex-live] Windows (MSYS2) : kpathsea does not find texmf.cnf

[Vincent Torri]

Hello

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Vincent Torri <vincent.torri at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it a problem to use "kpsewhich.exe" when I call kpathsea_set_program_name() ?

actually, from the source code, argv0 is only used to set some
environment variables like SELFAUTOLOC from its path, so kpsewhich is
sufficient

Vincent Torri

> thank you
>
> Vincent Torri
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp> wrote:
>>> Any idea why ?
>>
>>
>> Because TEXMF in
>> TFMFONTS = .;{$TEXMF/fonts,$VARTEXFONTS}/tfm//
>> is defined by using $SELFAUTOLOC, the directory where
>> the exec file exists.
>> As you find in this exapmle, you have to install your
>> program into bin/win32 in order to fully use the kpathsea.
>>
>> Best,
>> Akira
>>