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Asked: 2026-05-31T18:01:39+00:00

I knew this day would come, so I guess it is here. (P.S. I

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I knew this day would come, so I guess it is here. (P.S. I am on windows XP).

I am trying to use this program here. I installed it fine, but it doesnt seem to work when I type in equations. So I went back to the site and it says I need JRE version 5.0 or above, (check). Then it also says I need dvipng, which I dont think I have.

So I went to the site it tells me to, (here), and I downloaded the most recent one, “dvipng-1.14.tar.gz”. I unzipped it and I have it all sitting in one directory.

Ok… now what?

Im afraid I need guidance on exactly how to proceed here. The readme and installation instructions say to run “./configure”, then “make”, etc, I opened the command prompt and did all that but doesnt recognize. I have never had to build in this way, I always used an IDE for compiling C++ programs that I write myself. (Anyway, why am I even having to make an exe why dont they just make one and let us download that?)

Very confused as to what I need to do here, appreciate some step by step help.

Thank you

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  1. Editorial Team

    Even though Mohammad’s problem was solved in the comments, I’ll have a go at answering his question:

    To run a build system that uses ./configure, you need something that can run shell scripts, as well as the usual suite of unix tools that the script expects, plus a compiler that behaves in the standard sort of way.

    The two projects that I know of that do this are cygwin and MSYS. cygwin is aimed at creating a full POSIX environment on windows, while MSYS is an add-on to MinGW that aims to provide just the parts needed to run a ./configure script and build a program.

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