I got portable texlive 2019 installed in Win10 and added the bin\win32 to system $PATH variable. Cmd command tex --version gives
TeX 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2019/W32TeX) kpathsea version 6.3.1 Copyright 2019 D.E. Knuth. There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and the Lesser GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING and the TeX source. Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth. but latex sample2e.tex gets me into
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/W32TeX) (preloaded format=latex) restricted \write18 enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt The command name is D:\Program Files\texlive\2019\bin\win32\mktexfmt Running the command D:\Program Files\texlive\2019\bin\win32\fmtutil-user.exe fmtutil [ERROR]: -user mode but path setup is -sys type, bailing out. D:\Program Files\texlive\2019\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:907: command failed with exit code 1: perl.exe "d:\Program Files\texlive\2019\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\fmtutil.pl" --user --byfmt latex I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! Any help is appreciated.
