Latex Error Converting DVI problem

Hello, I have been choogling along with manim and am struggling like many to get the text functional. I managed to implement the changes suggested in #36 which is reiterated in several other threads. I am still able to run commands such as

python3 ./manim.py example_scenes.py SquareToCircle -pl

However, I am experiencing an error message relating to the fix involving TEX_DIR that I am unsure how to fix. I tried pointing directly to the Tex directory within manim but didn’t think that was consistent with the advice here either. My current tex_file_writing.py looks like:

def tex_to_dvi(tex_file):
    result = tex_file.replace(".tex", ".xdv")
    if not os.path.exists(result):
        commands = [
            "xelatex",
            "-no-pdf",
            "-interaction=batchmode",
            "-halt-on-error",
            "-output-directory=" TEX_DIR,
            tex_file,
            ">",
            get_null()
        ]
        exit_code = os.system(" ".join(commands))
        if exit_code != 0:
            log_file = tex_file.replace(".tex", ".log")
            raise Exception(
                "Latex error converting to dvi."
                "See log output above or the log file: %s" % log_file)
    return result   


def dvi_to_svg(dvi_file, regen_if_exists=False):
    """
    Converts a dvi, which potentially has multiple slides, into a
    directory full of enumerated pngs corresponding with these slides.
    Returns a list of PIL Image objects for these images sorted as they
    where in the dvi
    """
    result = dvi_file.replace(".xdv", ".svg")
    if not os.path.exists(result):
        commands = [
            "dvisvgm",
            dvi_file,
            "-n",
            "-v",
            "0",
            "-o",
            result,
            ">",
            get_null()
        ]
        os.system(" ".join(commands))
    return result

But, when I attempt to run

python3 ./manim.py example_scenes.py Write Stuff -pl

as a test,

This is all I can muster. I can still run code not involving text. I tried messing around and removing the TEX_DIR portion, which yields the following message:

I can’t wait to share my work if we can get through this! I appreciate everyone’s consideration.

[AamodJ]

I am running manim on OS X and I just cloned the repo and everything works fine (if you have all the dependencies right). I think you might have a wrong version of LaTeX. Did you install MikTeX or MacTeX? I’ve installed MacTeX by brew cask install mactex. If you don’t have MacTeX, try installing and trying again. And also, revert your tex_file_writing.py file to the latest one from https://github.com/3b1b/manim/blob/master/manimlib/utils/tex_file_writing.py

[gargVader]

i am having same problem. please help at #623