Cfrgtkky

I'm trying to use continuous integration with appveyor but I'm unable to run pdflatex. I considered myself reasonably competent with MikTeX up until now, though perhaps this is more a powershell problem.

I was able to install and run TeX Live through appveyor but I'd like to test MikTeX.

Attempt 1: docker

I attempted to use MikTeX's docker image (https://miktex.org/howto/miktex-docker) but it appears to be only usable for GNU/Linux:

build_script:

  - docker pull miktex/miktex

  - docker volume create --name miktex

  - docker run -ti 

      -v miktex:/miktex/.miktex 

      -v `pwd`:/miktex/work 

      miktex/miktex 

      pdflatex Report.tex

Results in:

>    docker pull miktex/miktex

>    Using default tag: latest

>    latest: Pulling from miktex/miktex

>    image operating system "linux" cannot be used on this platform

>    Command exited with code 1

>    7z a failure.zip *.Rcheck*

Attempt 2: via chocolatey

init:

    ps:

       choco install miktex.portable

       refreshenv



script:

  - pdflatex Report.tex

Result:

'pdflatex' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file

You can assume that Report.tex compiles.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'canonical'. But this should work:

version: 1.0.{build}

image: Visual Studio 2017

install:

  - ps: choco install -y miktex

  - cmd:  refreshenv



build_script:

  - cmd: pdflatex .Report.tex