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biber-windows-x86: program could not be found. #315

Closed martok closed 1 year ago

martok commented 1 year ago

The script link for biber does not work anymore on windows-x86:

INFO  biber - this process (2664) started by powershell in directory .... with command line: "C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\biber.exe"
FATAL biber.core - The program '{name}' could not be found.
FATAL biber.core - Data: engine="exe", path="executables/windows-x86/biber/biber.exe", name="biber"
FATAL biber.core - Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Session\runperl.cpp:57

This seems to be a platform packaging issue, the path given in scripts.ini is correct for biber-windows-x64, biber-linux-x86_64 and biber-darwin-x86_64, but not for biber-windows-x86, which installs into the old(?) path biber\bin\windows-x86\biber.exe.

edocevoli commented 1 year ago

I am afraid 32-bit biber is not supported/provided anymore. See https://miktex.org/announcement/miktex-32-bit-end-of-life

martok commented 1 year ago

I mean, it is provided, current, downloadable, installable, it even works when invoked directly or via hardlink on the expected new location. Shouldn't the updater warn the user before updating to broken packages? Even just a general "this version is not supported, if anything breaks it's on you" would be better.

Thanks anyway, at least the error message is googleable now.