ConTeXt example projects don't show in PDF reader when compiling.

[invarianz]

I'm new to ConTeXt and come from LaTeX. I wanted to get my feet wet with the typesetting experience. Trying the ConTeXt IDE freshly installed from the Windows Store.

I start a new example project (thesis) and click "Root" under "Start" to compile the document.

However, no PDF document is created and openend. In addition there are no error or warning logs.

Thats the screenshot of the fresh install:

[invarianz]

The issue seems to be resolved. I added the bin folder of the App to my PATH and now it works. However, this step is not mentionend in the documentation and should be added if necessary. For context: I was testing on two different Windows 11 machines and only when adding the bin/ folder of the context.exe to the PATH, the example projects started to compile.

[feophan]

I have the same issue on Windows 10. There's no bin folder or context.exe to be found in WindowsApps folder, and adding location of ConTeXt-IDE.Desktop.exe to PATH did nothing.

[invarianz]

The path is difficult to find, it took me a while. For my machine it is: C:\Users\invar\AppData\Local\Packages\7614MasterDevelopment.ConTeXtIDE_6y3v46cbhs1ne\LocalState\tex\texmf-mswin\bin

[feophan]

Unfortunately adding \LocalState\tex\texmf-mswin\bin to PATH did nothing,

\starttext
	Hello World!
\stoptext

even does not compile.