wgranados
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7 years ago First attempt at resolving this is a bust.
Tried a hacky way to run the linux libraries that I use for the .calc and LaTeX related commands on the Windows 10 platform by piping the necessary commands to the WSL (bash on ubuntu binary). Unfortunately the subprocess module returned error code 4294967295, and not the zero-exit code required. Turns out that this issue is resolved on the Windows insider builds, but, this bug fix won't be shipped to consumer versions of Windows 10, until the next installment of windows rolls around. 👎
Guess I'll have to try another alternative to getting these features working on the normal Windows 10 versions.
More information on this issue is here: BashOnWindows
For the calculator related notes, I'll probably have to use a library that isn't the GNOME gcalccmd, or
Some alternatives I can think of to get .calc command working on all platforms is to include the source files from GNOME's public repo, and compiling those vala libraries on the systems. Or just use the eval function for python with some very strict input sanitation (although the route suffers from floating point arithmetic errors, sadly).
On a semi motivational note, I think I might be able to run the LaTeX related commands by simply installing the LaTeX related binaries on Windows 10. When I was debugging by calling the normal cmd.exe with subprocess. Here's the output
The original project is able to run on windows binaries, this branch of the project however cannot because it uses many libriaries that are unix/linux exlcusive like the
gcalccmdlibrary. I will look into finding equivalent software that provide the same service, but I recommend anyone not interested in these features and are only interested in having a functional version in Windows to use the original project as your starting point.