pdflatex on windows

[acoastalfog]

With pdflatex clearly in my path and functional through the powershell terminal within Visual Studio Code, actually launching a pdf build through the command menu yields a momentary message, "generating [pdf]" and then no output, errors, or evidence that anything happened at all. Without any log output it's tough to debug...

[mzhaox]

If you try to compile the TeX file through PowerShell, what happens? When you do so, compile once with the flag "-interaction=nonstopmode" and once without. Can you post what the output is in both cases?

IIRC, I had a similar issues when my TeX file had egregious errors, or I already had the PDF open in Adobe.