[dvipdfmx] Intermittent xdvipdfmx failure

[Shunsaku Hirata]

Tim-san,

Dou itashimashite.

The problem seems to still exist in the native win32 builds, but as it
can not be reproduced in my environment, it is difficult to investigate
the problem further.

According to the TeX Live Guide -- 2020,

  https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html

Akira Kakuto is credited as the builder of win32 binaries.

Probably Kakuto-san is updating Windows binaries. I guess he is on
this list but I Cc-ed this email to him (please find his address in the
Cc field).

I personally think that incorporating the binary I provided into the
official TeXLive release is difficult since it is not extensively tested.


Thanks,
Shunsaku Hirata

2021年1月25日(月) 3:26 Tim Eyre <mail at nihilist.org.uk>:
>
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 17:28, Shunsaku Hirata
> <shunsaku.hirata74 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Tim-san,
> >
> > I tried that w32tex binary of dvipdfmx and could not reproduce the crash here.
> >
> > I don't know if it works for your environment but I put my own build
> > of the latest
> > TeXLive source on the following page:
> >
> >   https://shirat74.github.io/
> >
> > I think just replacing xdvipdfmx.exe is enough.
> >
> > Thanks for the cooperation.
>
> Hirata-san,
>
> Your build of xdvipdfmx.exe does not crash. Domo arigatou gozaimasu.
>
> I think the next question is: How do we get your good build into
> TeXLive? Whom should I contact?
>
> I noticed that your build is a standalone xdvipdfmx.exe (6,150,055
> bytes) but TeXLive packages the xdvipdfmx binary as a small exe (1,536
> bytes) + dvipdfmx.dll. Therefore it looks like the TeXLive build is
> different to yours. I don't know whether this is significant; it is
> just an observation.
>
> Tim