Issue in makefile - request for a one-click install?

[johnf-robert]

makefile displays an error at execution. makefile(24) : fatal error U1000: syntax error : ')' missing in macro invocation Stop.... Do you have an easy way to install the app locally without technical steps in Windows. I tried so many things following the processes blindly and nothing worked...I am not familiar with node.js, npm packages, and so on. Same nightmare for installing Katex... I expect a one-click install. Thank you. This application is a great job. I was waiting for that.

[kokic]

It is actually quite easy to install quiver locally. Even if using a completely manual approach, this may be more helpful in helping you understand how clean and pure the environment that quiver relies on is :)

Here are the steps:

1. Download the source code, you can use git clone or click the link https://github.com/varkor/quiver/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
2. If you selected the link download method in step 1, unzip to the location you need
3. As a step in the complete localization process, you also need to store a katex locally and be able to be correctly found by quiver. Similarly, you can still directly download the built katex through the link https://github.com/KaTeX/KaTeX/releases/download/v0.16.9/katex.zip
4. Extract the file to quiver-master/src, in other words, quiver needs to find katex.min.js and other things (such as style files .css and fonts .ttf) in the folder src/katex
5. open quiver-master/src/index.html

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Supplementary explanation:

• Regarding step 4, the correct path for katex, even if quiver makes changes to it in the future, you can still find this correct path through the following methods: Enter file quiver-master/src/ui.js and search for katex.min.js, You will see that currently it is KaTeX/katex.min.js, Due to the insensitivity of Windows file system to case, even if lowercase katex was present before, it still worked very well.
• If you encounter permission issues on other devices, specifically, you cannot use quiver by directly opening index. html. In this case, you only need to run a local static web server in the current path. Many language runtime environments come with this feature, such as python -m http.server

[varkor]

Hi @johnf-robert, you probably don't need to build quiver manually using the Makefile. If you simply want to use quiver offline, as long as you have visited https://q.uiver.app/ at least once, you will be able to open it without an internet connection in the future. If you want to use it as a standalone app, you can also install it from the webpage. For instance, on Chrome, you can click on this icon in the URL bar:

(Unfortunately, this feature does not seem to be supported in Firefox at the moment, but you can still use quiver offline through the browser in this case.)

Currently, the only reason to use the Makefile is if you want to modify your own copy of quiver, the main task of the Makefile is to download KaTeX, which can easily be done manually as @kokic has explained (thank you @kokic!).