Produce PDF Version not working on macOS

Running the IDE’s Produce PDF Version on the spec, /Users/raymondDocuments/try_tlaplus/TCommit.tla gives an error:

PDF Production Error

TLATex unrecoverable error: -- Trying to run the command `pdflatex TCommit.tex' produced the following error
  Cannot run program "pdflatex" (in directory "Users/raymond/Documents/try_tlaplus/TCommit.toolbox"): error=2, No such file of directory

I’m running the nightly build: Feb 5 20:19 TLAToolbox-1.5.8-macosx.cocoa.x86_64.zip on macOs Mojave Version 10.14.2

The command does produce a valid LaTeX file, TCommit.tex. I know that is valid because I can manually (from the command-line) run pdflatex TCommit.tex and successfully produce a PDF.

Here is the relevant tree output:

$ tree
.
├── DieHard.tla
├── TCommit.tla
├── TCommit.toolbox
│   ├── Model_1
│   │   ├── MC.cfg
│   │   ├── MC.out
│   │   ├── MC.tla
│   │   ├── MC_TE.out
│   │   └── TCommit.tla
│   ├── TCommit.tex
│   ├── TCommit___Model_1.launch
├── mydiehard.tla
└── texput.log

I believe the cause of the problem is that the filename is not being appended to the path when running the PDF latex command.

[lemmy]

@rhettinger Did you configure the (absolute) path to pdflatex in the Toolbox’s preferences (TLA+ Toolbox > Preferences > TLA+ Preferences > PDF Viewer > Specify pdflatex command)?

[heidihoward]

I encountered the same issue (Toolbox v1.6.0) on macOS Catalina v10.15.1. The toolbox generated a valid tex file but did not compile to pdf. @lemmy’s suggested fix worked (copying which pdflatex into preferences) but it would be good if this worked out of the box.