The "Editorial manager" software used by springer journals such as Advances in Applied Clifford Algebra behaves poorly on latex files that include \usepackage{minted}
.
When provided with such a file, the software starts a build, and reports back 15 minutes later with the output "Error" and nothing else.
Some more details are given in the blog post "The pain with submitting LaTeX to a journal".
I tracked down the issue to \RequirePackage{ifplatform}
failing. Since we know that the platform is windows and does not support shellescape, we can insert a shim for this package with the following ifplatform.sty
:
\ProvidesPackage{ifplatform}
[2007/11/18 v0.2 Testing for the operating system]
\newif\ifshellescape
\newif\ifwindows
\newif\ifmacosx
\newif\iflinux
\shellescapefalse
\windowstrue
After doing this, \usepackage{minted}[frozencache,cachedir=.]
works as described in that blog post.