The program 'latexmk' could not be found.

[viktorashi]

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I'm using it with Latex-Workshop in VSCode on MacOS Sonoma 14.5 (23F79) and I'm getting Recipe terminated with error. Retry building the project. every time. When i go to check the logs I see

2025-02-09 03:03:47,743+0200 INFO  latexmk - this process (20868) started by "Code Helper (Plugin)" in directory /my/project/folder with command line: latexmk -outdir=PDF -c /my/project/folder/root.tex
2025-02-09 03:03:47,747+0200 FATAL latexmk.core - The program '{name}' could not be found.
2025-02-09 03:03:47,747+0200 FATAL latexmk.core - Data: path="scripts/latexmk/latexmk.pl", name="latexmk", engine="perl"
2025-02-09 03:03:47,747+0200 FATAL latexmk.core - Source: Libraries/MiKTeX/Core/Session/runperl.cpp:57
2025-02-09 03:03:47,748+0200 FATAL latexmk - The program 'latexmk' could not be found.
2025-02-09 03:03:47,748+0200 FATAL latexmk - Info: path="scripts/latexmk/latexmk.pl", name="latexmk", engine="perl"
2025-02-09 03:03:47,748+0200 FATAL latexmk - Source: Libraries/MiKTeX/Core/Session/runperl.cpp
2025-02-09 03:03:47,748+0200 FATAL latexmk - Line: 57

now that i remember initially i was getting the same error as #1053 , but not anymore apparently

Some more googling lead me to think i don't have perl installed, but being on MacOS where it is installed by default, doing a perl -v shows that everything is ok, maybe It's out of date tho? So i go and get Perl Brew to get the latest version .... still, same issue. I try updating my env veriables via this ancient version, just end up breaking my system even more, so i revert back.. To help you, this is the output from:

initexmf --report

ReportDate: 2025-02-09 03:09:37
CurrentVersion: 22.1
SetupDate: 2025-02-09 02:05:00
SetupVersion: 22.1
Configuration: Regular
GitInfo: 6b3d82b7d / 2022-01-30 11:05:07
OS: Darwin 23.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.5.0: Wed May  1 20:16:51 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.121.3~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 x86_64
SharedSetup: no
LinkTargetDirectory: /Users/viktorashi/bin
PathOkay: yes
LastUpdateCheck: 2025-02-09 02:05:43
LastUpdate: 2025-02-09 02:05:50
LastUpdateDb: 2025-02-09 02:05:42
SystemAdmin: no
RootPrivileges: no
AdminMode: no
Root0: /Users/viktorashi/Library/Application Support/MiKTeX/texmfs/config
Root1: /Users/viktorashi/Library/Application Support/MiKTeX/texmfs/data
Root2: /Users/viktorashi/Library/Application Support/MiKTeX/texmfs/install
UserInstall: /Users/viktorashi/Library/Application Support/MiKTeX/texmfs/install
UserConfig: /Users/viktorashi/Library/Application Support/MiKTeX/texmfs/config
UserData: /Users/viktorashi/Library/Application Support/MiKTeX/texmfs/data