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Is it possible and if so how can you pass flags to the ShareLaTeX compiler which one would have passed as parameters to the LaTeX compiler?

I am using the minted package and need to pass the -shell-escape flag.

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    You are very unlikely to be allowed shell escape on a server-based installation. – Joseph Wright♦ Apr 22 '13 at 6:19
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ShareLaTeX announced in their newsletter from January 28th 2014, that their compiler now supports the minted package

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    ONLY if you place it in the root folder of your project - if you place it in a subdirectory it breaks. – Centril Jan 30 '16 at 0:40
  • Wow, that really got me confused. Thanks. They should be more clear with that. – lindhe Apr 22 '16 at 9:22
  • Note that it also supports converting images from pdf format to png images – Thorbjørn E. K. Christensen Nov 15 '17 at 7:55
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Without an 'official line' from the ShareLaTeX people, the answer we can give is almost certainly 'no'. The -shell-escape system is turned off as standard for a reason: there are security issues. On a server, these become even more important than on a stand-alone machine. Even if you were allowed -shell-escape, without Pygmentize installed minted still won't work.

It would be possible for ShareLaTeX to install Pygmentize and add it to the 'trusted' list of programs that LaTeX can run without -shell-escape, but minted actually checks for -shell-escape so this wouldn't work. You are therefore out of luck, I think.

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Alltough a few weeks old now, people might still be interested in a solution. If you are running your own docker, you get this done quite simple by activating the

-shell-escape

flag and installing the software and packages you need (in your case minted). But keep in mind, this is a severe security issue as users can basically run every bash command out of LaTeX now! Edit /var/www/pdflatex and add the flag, thats all you need to do. You can also move

pdflatex (in /usr/bin/ or something like this) to pdflatex_orig

and replace pdflatex through a script calling pdflatex_orig with addtionally added flags. Not much work to be done to edit this, but of course you need your own ShareLaTeX docker to do so.

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