Cygwin w / TeXnicCenter or WinEdt - Can they be stitched / integrated to work together?

Question

Is it possible to connect one of WinEdt or TeXnicCenter (a variant of Windows), so that it uses the TeTeX LaTeX distribution, which is included in the Cygwin distribution? I just can’t use MiKTeX because my bash-specific scripts called from the top level of my latex source using the command \ immediately \ write18 will not work using MS-DO (rk) S.

Ideally, I would like WinEdt or TeXnicCenter to open a cygwin window and run pdflatex in the main source file every time I want to compile. Any ideas? I usually use TextEdit on a Mac, which makes it relatively easy for the user, so I'm not very good at changing these configuration settings on Windows.

Answer 1

OK So I spent the last five days figuring this out. I had serious problems because the command line switch for PDFLATEX was not specified (pdflatex is a symbolic link to pdfetex)

• Install Cygwin and your packages.
• Do not install MiKTeX
• Add C: \ cygdrive \ bin to the path
• Install WinEdt
• pdflatex 'pdfetex -efmt = pdflatex' ( CRITICAL pdflatex)

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