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ftilmann / latexdiff

Compares two latex files and marks up significant differences between them. Releases on www.ctan.org and mirrors
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pre-built executable binary on Windows #197

Open xx256xx opened 4 years ago

xx256xx commented 4 years ago

I try to install latexdiff in my computer and find it requires some Perl dependencies. Inspired by latexindent (https://ctan.org/pkg/latexindent) where the maintainer releases a pre-built executable binary and users download it and run it without Perl dependencies, I wonder whether it is possible to build and distribute latexdiff.exe directly, instead of a Perl script.

ftilmann commented 4 years ago

Thanks for this suggestion. Unfortunately, I have little idea about the Windows world, so cannot take this on myself. On Unix systems (linux+MacOS) this is a non-issue as perl almost always comes pre-installed and latexdiff has been packaged by third parties for the popular linux distributions. I will leave the issue open, in case somebody else feels motivated to tackle it (but have to warn that practically all contributions I had for latexdiff were people fixing their own issues)