Installation problem, I can't get the plugin working anymore

[dedalozzo]

I had the bad idea of installing MikTek, because it's the one suggested. I had a working installation under PhpStorm with Tex Live (MacTex). I remove it, and I installed MikTek. Since then there is no way for me to make it work again. I removed MikTek, reinstalled Tex Live, but it doesn't work.

It is installed under:

/usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/universal-darwin

And this is my configuration:

The plugin doesn't show me the message in the figure below:

So I had to understand how to configure it manually. I tried everything. I restarted, I reinstalled the plugin multiple times, deleted the file with the configuration of the plugin manually, etc. Nothing works.

I always get a permission error:

Permissions are correct:

drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 128 25 Apr 01:50 texlive/

id -Gn fff

staff wheel everyone localaccounts _appserverusr admin _appserveradm _lpadmin _appstore _lpoperator _developer _analyticsusers com.apple.access_ftp com.apple.access_screensharing com.apple.access_ssh com.apple.access_remote_ae

I am in the wheel group, so I am able to execute any command in the directory where the executables are. I tried, it works.

I don't know what the hell should I do. I find the installation procedure quite confusing, especially when it doesn't work. I also don't know why MikTex is the default option in the installation instructions.

[dedalozzo]

I found the solution myself. You need to provide the full path of the pdflatex file. The documentation of this plugin has to be reviewed, it's all wrong. I am going to open an issue on the installation.

[PHPirates]

If it's all wrong, you can fix it by clicking on the Edit button and then edit the wiki page. Thanks in advance!

[dedalozzo]

I will update the doc at some point next week. I will also document how to install Texidote if you aren't using Homebrew on MacOS, because not all the people use Homebrew, many use MacPorts, and Texidote is not available on MacPorts, so to make it work with TeXiFy, you need to create a shell script.

[PHPirates]

We don't have a Mac and of course cannot install MacOS in a VM because Apple makes sure that's not possible, so that's why MacOS support is kind of experimental. If you could improve the documentation for Mac users I'm sure it will be greatly appreciated!