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Handle competing fontconfig installation #923

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zomborid opened this issue Sep 14, 2021 · 1 comment
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Handle competing fontconfig installation #923

zomborid opened this issue Sep 14, 2021 · 1 comment
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zomborid commented Sep 14, 2021

Issue #629 mentioned MiKTeX failing to open fontconfig on Windows.
The error stated Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file.
Reinstall of MiKTeX did not resolve it.

I found a strange env variable: FONTCONFIG_FILE="C:\Windows\fonts.conf"
Since the file did not exist I tried to delete the env variable, and magically latex works now.

The probable cause is that I installed MiniTool MovieMaker and OBS Studio, and one of them created the erroneous variable.

(Since comments on the original issue are not allowed, I opened a new one to document my finds. This issue can be closed I think.)

@edocevoli edocevoli reopened this Sep 14, 2021
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Thank you for the info. Maybe this should be logged.

@edocevoli edocevoli added this to the 21.9 milestone Sep 14, 2021
@edocevoli edocevoli changed the title Possible cause (and solution) of issue #629 Handle competing fontconfig installation Sep 14, 2021
edocevoli added a commit that referenced this issue Oct 4, 2021
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