Texstudio Biber compiling error

Question

I'm trying to use biblatex with TexStudio but am running into difficulties.

I tried to set up Texstudio baed on the following instructions: How to properly compile and run BibLaTeX, but the compiling does not even work on a file that doesn't have a bibliography.

Here is a MWE:

\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}

Below is a photo of my Texstudio compiling settings. For the default compiler I have: pdflatex, biber, pdflatex, pdflatex for the default compiler and made biber the default bibliography tool

I am on Texstudio 4.7.1, on the newest version 4.7.2 I had some weird highlighting of text while typing in equations, so I went back to 4.7.1.

I got the following error when I ran the above tex file with the above settings:

Process started: /Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "test_file".tex
Process exited normally
Process started: /Library/TeX/texbin/biber "test_file"
dyld[42643]: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.20/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib Referenced from: <13F64F77-06B2-3380-939A-92FD929CDF70> /private/var/folders/zz/py2wclgx0w16rzwlr4mz3f340000gn/T/par-6d61787a686f75/cache-6bef3f811cde577dd70e44f9f5046ebc66712c46/biber Reason: tried: '/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.20/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.20/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib' (no such file), '/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.20/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libperl.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libperl.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache)
Error: Command crashed: /Library/TeX/texbin/biber "test_file"
Process exited with error(s)
Process started: /Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "test_file".tex
Process exited normally
Process started: /Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "test_file".tex
Process exited normally

Evidently something is going wrong in the Biber step, but how do I fix it? If I just change the default compiler to just do pdflatex, everything works fine.

Answer 1

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Process started: /Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "test_file".tex
Process exited normally

pdfTeX compiles the document fine.

Process started: /Library/TeX/texbin/biber "test_file"
dyld[42643]: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.20/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib Referenced from: <13F64F77-06B2-3380-939A-92FD929CDF70> /private/var/folders/zz/py2wclgx0w16rzwlr4mz3f340000gn/T/par-6d61787a686f75/cache-6bef3f811cde577dd70e44f9f5046ebc66712c46/biber Reason: tried: '/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.20/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.20/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib' (no such file), '/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.20/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libperl.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libperl.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache)
Error: Command crashed: /Library/TeX/texbin/biber "test_file"
Process exited with error(s)

Even though you don't have a bibliography, you've asked to run Biber. Biber expects to find a file generated by the pdfTeX run. Trying to run Biber when that file doesn't exist will give an error. So an error is expected here.

That said, I'm not sure this error is expected. It looks as if biber may be crashing before even looking for the generated file. For example, if I compile your code, I get

INFO - This is Biber 2.19
INFO - Logfile is 'prawf.blg'
ERROR - Cannot find 'prawf.bcf'!
INFO - ERRORS: 1

where the log file says

[0] Config.pm:307> INFO - This is Biber 2.19
[0] Config.pm:310> INFO - Logfile is 'prawf.blg'
[90] biber:340> INFO - === Mer Chw 21, 2024, 04:21:06
[280] Utils.pm:410> ERROR - Cannot find 'prawf.bcf'!
[280] Biber.pm:136> INFO - ERRORS: 1

Do you have a file <filename>.blg?

What do which -a perl and perl --version return?

How did you install TeX? (E.g. MacTeX? Or ...?)