PDFLatex: Unable to Generate Index

Question

Master file:

\documentclass[dvipsnames,cmyk]{book}

% File Containing All the Control Settings
\usepackage{../../Style/mystyle}
\makeindex

\begin{document}

% Front Cover
\include {Front_Cover/frontcover}


% Chapters
\include {Chapters/CH_Analysis_of_Algorithms/Analysis_of_Algorithms}
\include {Chapters/CH_Abstract_Data_Types/Abstract_Data_Types}
\include {Chapters/CH_Arrays/Arrays}
\include {Chapters/CH_Linked_Lists/Linked_Lists}
\include {Chapters/CH_Stacks/Stacks}
\include  {Bibliography/biblio}

% Index
\printindex
\end{document}

I compiled it as follows:

$pdflatex master.tex

=> Empty idx file generated

$makeindex master.idx

This is makeindex, version 2.15 [TeX Live 2012] (kpathsea + Thai support). Scanning input file master.idx...done (0 entries accepted, 0 rejected). Nothing written in master.ind. Transcript written in master.ilg.

$pdflatex master.tex

Output: PDF with NO Index.

I am compiling from the command line using pdflatex (don't use latex to avoid boxing issues with graphics)

Please guide me on this issue.

Answer 1

(Just to end this thing:) In your given MWE were two problems:

1. I can't see that you loads package makeidx. It seems you load it in mystyle.sty (your cited message tells this).
2. As Heiko mentioned you have no macros \index{...} in your MWE.

A real working MWE for your case would look like this:

%http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68538/pdflatex-unable-to-generate-index
\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{makeidx}   % load package
\makeindex             % make file(s) *.idx

\begin{document}
Test\index{Test} Text\index{Text|textbf}

\printindex            % print index here
\end{document}

with the result, that everything is working now. Building such a MWE by your own helps you a lot to learn how TeX/LaTeX is working. Hope this helps you.

Answer 2

when invoking makeindex from TexnicCenter I had the same error message. It screened mydocument.idx which was an empty file created when running LaTeX and subsequently found no entries and produced no output. I found the nomenclatures in mydocument.nlo where they are supposed to be. So makeindex just took the wrong input file and consequently produced no output because it was empty.

So you have to invoke makeindex on your own via the command window in windows (cmd). You have to go in the directory where your document lies (with cd ...) Then just run

makeindex <filename>.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o <filename>.nls

And indeed makeindex makes the output file mydocuemnt.nls.

When you run LaTeX again it will find mydocument.nls and produce the nomenclature list.