Optimizer fails to run on Windows

[Cattlesquat]

• Bug report
• Feature request
• Question

Description
Please see: asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf#1790

They fixed this in October, but that was right after your last release.

All of our maven builds are failing for all of our devs on Windows, when they get to the asciidoctor step. No amount of wrestling with paths & environment variables, etc, has been any help.

Environment information

• asciidoctor-maven-plugin version: 2.1.0
• asciidoctorj version: ___

• Maven, Java and OS version:
  Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f)
  Maven home: C:\Users\Brian Reynolds.m2\wrapper\dists\apache-maven-3.6.3-bin\1iopthnavndlasol9gbrbg6bf2\apache-maven-3.6.3
  Java version: 15, vendor: AdoptOpenJDK, runtime: C:\Program Files\AdoptOpenJDK\jdk-15.0.0.36-hotspot
  Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
  OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"

[abelsromero]

Have you tried overriding with the latest Asciidoctorj & jruby versions like here https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-maven-examples/blob/70d6a34c6d2df2c94ea3206f8495c7239eb738b2/asciidoctor-pdf-example/pom.xml#L35-L45.

Not that it requires much effort, but alognside the Asciidoctorj team we try to keep things compatible so the maven-plugin can use newer versions. If the problem persists I see in the docs https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf#rghost that the path to the command can be set in an environment variable.

If none of this works, I can try to build a test, but if you can provide some reproducable with minimla instructions would help a lot.

[abelsromero]

If none of this works, I can try to build a test, but if you can provide some reproducable with minimla instructions would help a lot.

Of course if the repos are public, just feel free to point me to them too.

[uckelman]

The repo in question is here: https://github.com/vassalengine/vassal

[Cattlesquat]

mvnw install -pl vassal-doc

In the repo quoted above, that's an example command that would just attempt the asciidoc part of the build.

[Cattlesquat]

I have tried various environment variable attempts such as:
set GS="C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.54.0\bin\gswin64c.exe"
With no luck, although typing %GS% at the command line with that set does launch GS

[mojavelinux]

You won't be able to access this fix yet as it's scheduled for the upcoming Asciidoctor PDF 2 release. There's nothing AsciidoctorJ can do until that's released.

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[Cattlesquat]

Okay thanks. I guess probably asciidoc builds by our linux devs until then :D

[uckelman]

Thanks for your help. Any idea when we could expect that release?

[mojavelinux]

As soon as I can get around to wrapping up the issues. I'm likely going to push out on alpha in the new few weeks so at least there is something to start testing.