BibTeX with XeLaTeX using TeX Live 2015

Question

I am trying to compile an article using XeLaTeX. The article also contain a bibliography file, which I want to print inside the article, without citing any of the bib entry.

Please see below the complete tex code-

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage{fontspec}                       %for loading fonts
\usepackage{xunicode,xltxtra,url,parskip}   %other packages for formatting
\RequirePackage{color,graphicx}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[big]{layaureo}              %better formatting of the A4 page
\usepackage{supertabular}               %for Grades
\usepackage{titlesec}                   %custom \section

%FONTS
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont[
SmallCapsFont = Fontin-SmallCaps.otf,
BoldFont = Fontin-Bold.otf,
ItalicFont = Fontin-Italic.otf
]
{Fontin.otf}

\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{publications.bib}

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty} % non-numbered pages

\font\fb=''[cmr10]'' %for use with \LaTeX command

\section{Section before Publications}
Section before Publications

\section{Publications}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography

\section{Section after Publications}
Section after Publications
\end{document}

To compile this code, I initially run XeLaTeX followed by BibTeX. The BibTeX reports following error-

Process started


This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2015) The top-level auxiliary file: sample.aux I found no \citation commands---while reading file sample.aux I found no \bibdata command---while reading file sample.aux I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file sample.aux (There were 3 error messages)

Process exited with error(s)

Below is the necessary detail-

• Tex Live 2015
• Texmaker 4.5

I don't see the bib entries in the generated article. What's wrong here?

Answer 1

The biblatex package has support for two backends for processing/extracting entries from the bib file, bibtex and biber although bibtex is only supported for a subset of the possible biblatex functions detailed in 3.14 Using the fallback BibTeX backend of the biblatex documentation.

By default the preferred backend of biber is expected when biblatex is loaded and thus different information is written to the aux file, incompatible with the necessary code for bibtex. In order to run bibtex with biblatex the package call must explicitly say that bibtex will be used by passing the backend=bibtex option to biblatex i.e. \usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex} if no other options are called.