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I've been working with miktex for a while, recently I installed texlive instead, and found pdflatex for each manager is different, I'd like to unninstall pdflatex from the texlive manager and install pdflatex from miktex. Where do I find the it? I need it because of the option -include-directory=DIR

Where to download pdflatex.exe?

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Mario
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    You can't use the pdflatex from miktex in texlive. It needs an "miktex environment". – Ulrike Fischer May 22 '14 at 16:35
  • You can't (easily) use pdfLaTeX from one distro with the packages from another. However, I'm not sure what you mean about them being different: other than very minor versions they'll be the same release. – Joseph Wright May 22 '14 at 16:35
  • @JosephWright in miktex pdflatex has quite a number of command line options which doesn't exist in texlive - like the include-directory option which appends on the fly folders to the search path. – Ulrike Fischer May 22 '14 at 16:47
  • @UlrikeFischer Yes, I realise that but the pdfTeX 'business end' is the same (1.40....) – Joseph Wright May 22 '14 at 16:50

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You should not mix TeX binaries of different TeX distributions. If you like to use pdflatex of MiKTeX, install a minimal MiKTeX. To avoid doubling of all packages you can install the TEXMF tree of TeX Live (usually texlive/<year>/texmf-dist) as an additional TEXMF root with MiKTeX settings.

As an alternative you could fake the -include-directory option using a batch, that extends TEXINPUTS variable before calling TeX Live's pdflatex.

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On Windows 7, pdflatex.exe is located here

C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin assuming you install miktex into the folder I show here.

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