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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Reinhard Kotucha wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">do you <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>want<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> to compile the binaries yourself? An alternative is to
steal them from Akira's W32TeX. The file
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/w32tex/current/win64/xetex-w64.tar.xz">http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/w32tex/current/win64/xetex-w64.tar.xz</a>
is just two days old and very likely contains the latest fix.
As far as your question is concerned, my experience is that it is
<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>much<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> easier to compile programs on Linux and Cygwin rather than with
MinGW. Thus I suppose that Akira's binaries are a very good
alternative, at least</pre>
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I really would like to be able to compile at least XeTeX, Reinhard
-- then I can experiment with features that I think useful but which
are not of interest to others. The 64-bit version is optional, but
as I have a 64-bit processor and a 64-bit operating system, a 64-bit
XeTeX binary would seem to make sense to me ...<br>
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And I also think that the TeX community as a whole would benefit if
expertise in compiling TeX Live for Windows were more widely
distributed than at present -- the entire TeX world is surely
grateful to Akira for his incredibly useful work, but if he were
suddenly to find himself in a position where he could no longer
offer this service, then it would seem to me to be important that a
few others should be able to slowly try to take over what he has
been doing single-handedly until now ...<br>
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The real problem, as I now understand rather better than I did 24
hours ago (i.e., pre-MinGW) is that one does not simply "compile
XeTeX". The whole thing is wrapped in a whole sequence of wrappers
(build, configure, make, ...), none of which do I understand in the
slightest. <br>
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Anyhow, my attempt failed. I tried the following :<br>
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<pre class="example"># Create build directory:
mkdir Work
cd Work
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<pre class="example"># Do the configure:
../configure --disable-all-pkgs --enable-xetex -C CFLAGS=-g CXXFLAGS=-g
# Do the make:
make
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no error was reported at the final exit of "<tt>make</tt>", but no
XeTeX binary was created and instead I ended up with dozens of new,
partially populated directories in "<tt>Work/texk</tt>"that appear
to have nothing whatsoever to do with XeTeX, and a rather smaller
number under "<tt>Work/utils</tt>" and elsewhere. How do I even
start to try to identify why things failed, and why do I now have
all these new, seemingly unwanted, directories ?<br>
<br>
As an aside, "<tt>configure</tt>" is extraordinarily verbose : can
I not send the 99.9% of "<tt>OK</tt>" or "<tt>GOOD</tt>" messages
elsewhere and see only "<tt>FAILED</tt>" messages on my screen ?<br>
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Sub-directory listing of "<tt>Work/texk</tt>" :<br>
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<ul>
<li><tt>afm2pl</tt></li>
<li><tt>bibtex-x</tt></li>
<li><tt>chktex</tt></li>
<li><tt>cjkutils</tt></li>
<li><tt>detex</tt></li>
<li><tt>dtl</tt></li>
<li><tt>dvi2tty</tt></li>
<li><tt>dvidvi</tt></li>
<li><tt>dviljk</tt></li>
<li><tt>dvipdfm-x</tt></li>
<li><tt>dvipng</tt></li>
<li><tt>dvipos</tt></li>
<li><tt>dvipsk</tt></li>
<li><tt>dvisvgm</tt></li>
<li><tt>gregorio</tt></li>
<li><tt>gsftopk</tt></li>
<li><tt>kpathsea</tt></li>
<li><tt>lcdf-typetools</tt></li>
<li><tt>makeindexk</tt></li>
<li><tt>makejvf</tt></li>
<li><tt>mendexk</tt></li>
<li><tt>musixtnt</tt></li>
<li><tt>ps2pk</tt></li>
<li><tt>psutils</tt></li>
<li><tt>ptexenc</tt></li>
<li><tt>seetexk</tt></li>
<li><tt>tex4htk</tt></li>
<li><tt>texlive</tt></li>
<li><tt>ttf2pk2</tt></li>
<li><tt>ttfdump</tt></li>
<li><tt>upmendex</tt></li>
<li><tt>web2c</tt></li>
<li><tt>xdvik</tt></li>
</ul>
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Sub-directory listing of <tt>"Work/utils"</tt> :<br>
<ul>
<li><tt>autosp</tt></li>
<li><tt>devnag</tt></li>
<li><tt>lacheck</tt></li>
<li><tt>m-tx</tt></li>
<li><tt>pmx</tt></li>
<li><tt>ps2eps</tt></li>
<li><tt>t1utils</tt></li>
<li><tt>texdoctk</tt></li>
<li><tt>tpic2pdftex</tt></li>
<li><tt>vlna</tt></li>
<li><tt>xindy</tt></li>
<li><tt>xpdfopen</tt></li>
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** Phil.<br>
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Philip Taylor</div>
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