Passing outputdir option to minted

[paulromano]

If using the -output-directory option for latex/pdflatex, one needs to instruct minted where to look for temporary files via its outputdir package option. However, if using minted via tcolorbox, it doesn't seem possible to pass package options to minted. Am I missing something or is this really not possible?

[paulromano]

I should mention that I tried \PassOptionsToPackage{outputdir=...}{minted} and that didn't seem to work.

[T-F-S]

After doing several tests, I think I found the cause of the problem.

Passing options to minted via \PassOptionsToPackage{outputdir=...}{minted} does work and is IMHO the correct way to set the options. The problem is that the listing file is written to this output directory and is not found by \inputminted which is used internally by tcolorbox.

The solutions seems to be to add the output directory to the input path for \inputminted. My tests did not show any negative side effects. If nothing new comes up, I will put this change into the next tcolorbox version.

The following patch can be used meanwhile. Please, try this patch and comment, if it solves the problem for you:

\makeatletter
\def\tcb@minted@input@listing#1#2#3#4{%
  \edef\temp@a{#4}%
  \ifx\temp@a\@empty%
  \else%
    \toks@=\expandafter{#4}%
    \edef\tcb@temp{\noexpand\usemintedstyle{\the\toks@}}%
    \tcb@temp%
  \fi%
  \toks@=\expandafter{#1}%
  \edef\tcb@temp{\noexpand\inputminted[\the\toks@]}%
  \tcb@temp{#2}{\minted@outputdir#3}%
}
\makeatother

[paulromano]

@T-F-S Patch works great -- thanks! Look forward to the next release with this fixed.

[T-F-S]

Fixed with version 3.91 (2016/04/27).