I'm trying to install pdf-tools on my Windows System, I'm using the same config as for Arch Linux where this error is fixed by installing the arch linux pdf-tools package via pacman.
Obviously this is not possible with Windows.
The error is that pdf-tools-install tries to build the epdfinfo program.
To fix another error during this building process I had to install mysys64 and now there is the new error log
c\:/Users/stackoverflow/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/pdf-tools-1.0/server/autobuild -i
c\:/Users/stackoverflow/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/pdf-tools-1.0/
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Installing packages
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pacman -S --needed base-devel
mingw-w64-x86_64-libpng
mingw-w64-x86_64-poppler
mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib
error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
error: could not lock database: File exists
if you're sure a package manager is not already
running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
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Configuring and compiling
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No such program: autoreconf
Do you know how to fix this? I thought that it would be less pain to make pdf-tools work on every machine.
Maybe something is wrong with my init.el
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)
;(unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
; (package-refresh-contents)
; (package-install 'use-package))
;'(eval-when-compile
; (require 'use-package))
(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/themes/")
(load-theme 'zenburn t)
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
'(custom-safe-themes
'("1410978f21ad4be59873f27d5020500803a747d2f6ef617608d53c3cf63cc75b" default))
'(package-selected-packages '(org-roam pdf-tools ## auctex)))
(custom-set-faces
;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
)
(require 'pdf-tools)
(pdf-tools-build-server (expand-file-name (concat user-emacs-directory "elpa/pdf-tools-1.0")) nil nil nil (expand-file-name (concat user-emacs-directory "elpa/pdf-tools-1.0/server")))
(pdf-tools-install)
(use-package pdf-tools
:init
(pdf-tools-install)
:config
(setq TeX-view-program-selection '((output-pdf "PDF Tools"))
TeX-view-program-list '(("PDF Tools" TeX-pdf-tools-sync-view))
TeX-source-correlate-start-server t)
(add-hook 'TeX-after-compilation-finished-functions #'TeX-revert-document-buffer)
(setq pdf-view-use-scaling t)
(setq pdf-view-resize-factor 1.05)
:bind (:map pdf-view-mode-map
("<left>" . pdf-view-previous-page-command)
("<right>" . pdf-view-next-page-command)))
(setq TeX-source-correlate-mode t)
(setq font-latex-fontify-script nil)
(setq reftex-extra-bindings t) ;; Must be befor require reftex! (require 'reftex) (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook (lambda() (display-line-numbers-mode 1))) (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook (lambda() (visual-line-mode 1))) (setq reftex-plug-into-auctex t)
;; magic words: (setq reftex-label-alist '((nil ?e nil nil nil ("system" "systems" "estimate" "estimates")))) (setq TeX-save-query nil)
;; turn off welcome window, inhibit startup message
;; setq to indicate function
;; inhibit-startup-message to true
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
Also tested this config on macOS now and it also tries to build epdfinfo
Edit:
To fix the error with the locked database I had to remove msys64/var/lib/pacman/db.lck but I still get the error that autoreconf is missing.
