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I'm using TeXstudio 2.6.2 with MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.9.4535 on Windows7.

I configured TeXstudio to store all output files in a separate directory.

It now looks like this:

-src
    |_Report.tex
    |_*.tex (all chapters)
    |_Report.bib
-build
    |_Report.pdf
    |_Report.log
    |_Report.bbl
    |_*.aux

which is my desired structure.

My problems are

  1. There are many messages like "citation 'X' on page Y undefined. There's the error message "no file Report.bbl"
  2. the inbuilt pdf-viewer doesn't open (find?) Report.pdf

My configuration looks looks this: enter image description here

How do I have to configure TeXstudio properly in order to solve these issues?

Martin Schröder
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bogus
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  • Did you run bibtex? – Sigur Jan 07 '14 at 13:51
  • @Sigur yes I did – bogus Jan 07 '14 at 13:54
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    99 times out of a 100 when someone configures tex to write the output somewhere non standard people get error messages with one or other of the auxiliary programs not finding stuff. It is so much easier just not to do that, and to let Tex write stuff where everything expects things to be written.... – David Carlisle Jan 07 '14 at 14:07
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    You've tagged the question with biblatex, do you use that package? biblatex package uses biber as default bibliography backend, so running bibtex wont help unless you've specified backend=bibtex. – Torbjørn T. Jan 07 '14 at 14:12
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    It is quite possible that miktex doesn't write some of your files due to security restrictions as you are trying to write to a folder which is not a subfolder of your current directory. Beside this I agree with David. – Ulrike Fischer Jan 07 '14 at 14:25
  • Are there any news here? – Johannes_B May 06 '15 at 15:35

1 Answers1

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Biber does not know the option --include-directory.

If you use the TeX switch -output-directory or some kind of build folder option of your editor/IDE, you will need to tell Biber so using either of the --input-directory or --output-directory options.

Biber's help explains the two thus

--input-directory [directory]
    .bcf and data files will be looked for first in the directory. See
    the biber PDF documentation for the other possibilities and how this
    interacts with the "--output_directory" option.

--output-directory [directory]
    Output files (including log files) are output to directory instead
    of the current directory. Input files are also looked for in
    directory before current directory (but after "--input_directory" if
    that is specified).

In your case you would need

biber --output-directory=../build %

Which works perfectly together with MikTeX's --output-directory and --aux-directory.

moewe
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