How to cope with this error while compiling latex with vscode?

Question

I followed several tutorials on the Internet and tried to build a latex environment in vscode. However, after I've installed everything and started running a .tex file, it came up with the following error:

Qt: Untested Windows version 6.2 detected!
xelatex: Bad parameter value.
xelatex: Data: font_mem_size

source code test.tex: (I put it in a folder on desktop)

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
    Hello World!
\end{document}

I tried Google, but didn't find any effective approach. I also restarted my computer and reinstalled MiKTeX, but nothing changed.

By the way: I installed LaTeX workshop, MiKTeX and Strawberry Perl (just following the tutorial) and added this into the settings.json of vscode.

"latex-workshop.latex.tools": [
        {
            "name": "xelatex",
            "command": "xelatex",
            "args": [
                "-synctex=1",
                "-interaction=nonstopmode",
                "-file-line-error",
                "%DOCFILE%"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "pdflatex",
            "command": "pdflatex",
            "args": [
                "-synctex=1",
                "-interaction=nonstopmode",
                "-file-line-error",
                "%DOCFILE%"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "bibtex",
            "command": "bibtex",
            "args": [
                "%DOCFILE%"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "latex-workshop.latex.recipes": [
        {
            "name": "xelatex",
            "tools": [
                "xelatex"
            ],
        },
        {
            "name": "pdflatex",
            "tools": [
                "pdflatex"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "xe->bib->xe->xe",
            "tools": [
                "xelatex",
                "bibtex",
                "xelatex",
                "xelatex"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "pdf->bib->pdf->pdf",
            "tools": [
                "pdflatex",
                "bibtex",
                "pdflatex",
                "pdflatex"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "latex-workshop.view.pdf.viewer": "tab",
    "latex-workshop.latex.autoBuild.run": "onFileChange",
    "latex-workshop.message.error.show": false,
    "latex-workshop.message.warning.show": false,

Update: the issue was solved by reinstalling MiKTeX and resetting its environment variables in PATH.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '22 at 02:13

The issue was eventually solved by reinstalling MiKTeX and resetting its environment variables in PATH. (Another way is to directly install MiKTeX in its recommended directory, which is how I solved the problem.) In addition, the code I added in the settings.json should be discarded (or vscode will report errors).

How to cope with this error while compiling latex with vscode?

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