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Apparently there's only one person that managed to do it. I'm following his installations step by step precisely, but I do not have the iconc compiler. Following the instructions of the Makefile, I'm using icont (which I do have), but then Jim's instructions do not work at all.

$ make install
[...]
cp totex disambiguate noidx tohtml elide l2h docs2comments autodefs.tex autodefs.icon autodefs.yacc autodefs.sml autodefs.pascal autodefs.promela autodefs.lrtl autodefs.asdl autodefs.mmix xchunks pipedocs /c/nowebFiles/usr/local/noweb/lib
cp: cannot stat `totex': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `disambiguate': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `noidx': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `tohtml': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `elide': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `l2h': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `docs2comments': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `xchunks': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `pipedocs': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Melba/noweb-2.11b/src/icon'
make: *** [install-code] Error 2

The problem here is that icont creates totex.icx and not totex. Is this due to my not having iconc and am using icont instead? I installed icont from its homepage and it did not seem to come with iconc. What should I do?

Just so you know: I've changed the lib/Makefile to call these programs as totex.icx and so I'm able to get the whole thing to build, but noweave doesn't work then, so I did it all from scratch and stopping to this point above to ask this question here because the only I thing I have different from Jim is that he might have had the iconc compiler and I don't. (He's also on Windows 7 apparently, but I don't think that makes any difference at all here.) Thank you!

user9654148
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    [The noweb FAQ](https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/FAQ.html) isn't too encouraging. All in all I would suggest that this is likely to be an uphill battle, due to the extreme age of the project and its relative obscurity. Wish I could help though! – Lightness Races in Orbit Feb 19 '19 at 00:38
  • Yup. Thanks a lot, though. I think I'm going to give up and give CWEB a try. – user9654148 Feb 19 '19 at 00:42
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    For the record, I eventually gave up --- I tried cygwin and msys. [These instructions](http://www.jim-pettigrew.com/noweb/install/) didn't work for me on Windows 10 and maybe I'll come back here to report the exact problem --- I don't remember anymore. CWEB works, but TeX is not prepared to deal with UTF-8 --- a nuisance. Other TeX distributions such as XeTeX did not work with the CWEB boilerplate. So I'm still resorting to UNIX to run noweb. Noweb's contribution `dpp` for C code pretty printing needs improvements. Maybe I'll work on it. (Though it's written in the post-modern language.) – user9654148 Mar 07 '19 at 13:54

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I've just started using Windows 10 and I've installed the Debian linux environment from the Microsoft Store (weird to type that). This is under the Windows SubsystemforLinux (WSL). I first updated the default software, as they recommend:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Following that, I installed aptitude, the Debian package manager I prefer (apt-get install aptitude), then emacs and noweb. (I use both for almost all my work.) Installing noweb, pulls in tex and other supporting programs into the WSL .

I just created a simple noweb file and noweave produced compilable tex, which worked fine with pdflatex. Thus, it appears to be much easier now to get noweb to work on Windows 10.

A potential caveat is that I don't yet fully understand how the two systems (native Windows 10 and WSL linux subsystem) interact together. Earlier today, I found that I couldn't not save a file from Emacs running in the native Windows 10 environment to the WSL Debian linux environment. But I can save a file to the native Windows 10 file system from WSL linux Emacs. So while one can now relatively easily install noweb on Windows 10, it may be too cumbersome a workflow.

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