error "latexdiff: The Perl Script could not be found."

miktex scripts latexdiff perl

7,570

I've just faced this exact problem with latexdiff.

Follow the solution found here for a different package,

http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14677

but also rename the latexdiff perl files to also have a .pl extension.

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user24021

Updated on September 11, 2020

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user24021 over 2 years
I have MikTeX 2.9 installation and Strawberry Perl 5.10.1.5.

All the latexdiff, latexdiff-fast, latexidff-so paths seem to be present in the scripts.ini file and their .exe files in the miktex/bin/x64.

Somehow when I try to run latexdiff command in the directory where the two versions of .tex files are present, I get this error
```
latexdiff: The Perl script could not be found.

latexdiff: Data: scripts/latexdiff/perl/latexdiff.pl
```
When I run the command, a pop-up window asks for installation of latexdiff.pl and I press ok, but it ends up in the error shown above. I followed some posts with similar problem, but couldn't find a solution.

Any help would be appreciated.
- Speravir over 10 years
  
  This seems to be a bug in MiKTeX: With the call of latexdiff you actually make a call of latexdiff.exe, what is a wrapper. In this wrapper the path shown in th error message seem s to be hardcoded, but it is empty on my machine. So file a bug in the MiKTeX Bugs Tracker. BTW there were recently also problems with other perl based scripts in MiKTeX.
- Speravir over 10 years
  
  I think, it is not really related, but let me point you to latexdiff problem in MikTex 2.8 after update: “Perl script not found”.
- user24021 over 10 years
  
  @Speravir I came across this post before I posted mine, but the post didn't really suggest a solution. I'll try to file a bug with the MiKTeX Bugs Tracker.
- user24021 over 10 years
  
  @Speravir MiKTeX Bugs Tracker doesn't allow to me file the bug. I created an account in SourceForge and tried creating a ticket, but it says 'We are sorry your request could not be processed' and doesn't give any further information.
Peter Jansson about 10 years

Welcome to TeX.sx!
lockstep about 10 years

Please consider to include more details, so that your answer becomes self-contained.
remus over 9 years

I followed this approach (made a folder perl in scripts/latexdiff, moved all files there; added .pl to all of them and refresh FNDB) and I still get the error. Did I miss something?
remus over 9 years

I moved latexdiff.pl to my working folder and invoked perl latexdiff.pl old.tex new.tex > diff.tex but I would like to use it normally from miktex.
Elliot over 8 years

Could you explain what you actually did step by step? I tried simply making a /perl folder in MiKTeX 2.9/scripts/latexdiff and giving everything a .pl extension and the same error still occurs.