General ⇒ Compiling on TeXnicenter

[muath]

Hi there,
I installed the TeXnic Center, and I just wrote

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\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
hi
\end{document}

then I got 7 errors, I am just wondering what I have to do?

the errors are like
you are attempting to make a LaTeX format from source file

that is more than five years old
and so on


Thanks in advance
Muath

[muath]

Another information it could be helpful. May be the problem came from the installation,
I use windows 7, miktex2.7 is installed on c:\program files, then the tixnicenter also on program files,
I do not know the perfect way to install it, since wind7 has program files (86x).

I was using it on older versions of windows.

Alot of thanks.

[MartinC]

What are the errors?

[muath]

The errors are:
you are attempting to make a LaTeX format from source file.
that is more than five years old.
If you enter <return> to scroll past this message then the format will be built, but please consider obtaining newer source files before continuing to build latex.

[sommerfee]

I use windows 7, miktex2.7

Is there a reason why you use an old MikTeX version (from 2007) which is no longer supported and neither offer updates nor package installations from internet? See: http://miktex.org/2.7/

I would install the recent version 2.9 instead, and this should also make your error go away.

[muath]

I installed miktec2.9 64 bit
but the error becomes
"cannot excute the file"

by the way
what the link must be
it was at 2.7
c:\program files\miktex 2.7\miktex\bin

[muath]

okay it works, but if I use packages the errors becomes you have to install it.
I followed it, but also it is not working.

[sommerfee]

I followed it, but also it is not working.

What exactly do you mean by "it is not working"? If you get an error, which one? And did you follow the instructions on http://www.miktex.org/2.9/issues, section "TeXnicCenter compatibility"? What happens if you don't use TeXniccenter but TeXworks (which comes with MikTeX) instead?

[muath]

Thank you all,
the problem now is solved, the packages were not defined. I define them one by one manually.

Muath