Problems running epstopdf. Check your TeX installation

Question

I keep getting the following error when running doxygen:

Problems running epstopdf. Check your TeX installation!

Do I need to install Latex somewhere?

Answer 1

epstopdf is a Perl script that converts EPS to 'encapsulated' PDF using GhostScript. Technically you don't need LaTeX, although it forms part of every TeX distribution by default.

So, either download it directly, or install any one of the major TeX distributions (say, MiKTeX or TeX Live).

Answer 2

I ran into this when playing around with plantuml (@startuml, @enduml). In the default config, GENERATE_LATEX is set to YES, whereas I only cared for html. When I set GENERATE_LATEX to NO, doxygen does not need epstopdf anymore.