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I am trying to run Pandoc on MS Azure environment to create HTML report from markdown file. The Pandoc command is real simple one.

pandoc test.md -o test.html

But I get the following error.

pandoc: getAppUserDataDirectory:sHGetFolderPath: illegal operation (unsupported operation)

It seems to me that MS Azure has Windows 10 sort of environment. I even tried to set up XDG_DATA_HOME or XDG_DATA_DIRS, but it still gives the same error.

Can you someone please help?

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  • This GitHub issue talks about a similar issue. The explanation for the message is as follows: "Some more info: For this specific case the getAppUserDataDirectory does not mean the the User does not have a directory, it is just mean that the Haskel functions and subsequently the win32 libraries that Haskell uses cannot 'find' that directory. This is happening, because the user that run the R Script (thus calling the pandoc.exe) is not a 'real' user." What that tells me is the user attempting to perform the work doesn't have access to the file.
    – Ramhound
    Aug 10, 2021 at 16:27
  • @Ramhound, I looked into the link. I am just running Windows batch file with a pandoc command. I am not sure why it is not able to "see/find" getAppUserDataDirectory.
    – NotepadPlusPlus PRO
    Aug 10, 2021 at 18:53
  • To be clear, getAppUserDataDirectory is a method within Pandoc, so if it's not working then it's probably an environmental variable issue.
    – Ramhound
    Aug 10, 2021 at 18:57
  • Yes. Agree. But how to setup this directory in some way?
    – NotepadPlusPlus PRO
    Aug 10, 2021 at 18:59
  • Have you set --data-dir=DIR to the directory that contains the files? What is the contents of ~/.local/share/pandoc/defaults? The final command would indeed be test.md -o test.html --data-dir=testdir
    – Ramhound
    Aug 10, 2021 at 19:15

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Thank you for all the comments. I was able to solve this issue with using --data-dir flag in my call. Here is what I used.

pandoc test.md -o test.pdf --data-dir=.

(Note . means current directory).

Thanks.

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