[luatex] Building LuaTeX.

[Paul Isambert]

  Le 27/09/2010 14:37, Paweł Jackowski a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Paul Isambert 
> <zappathustra at free.fr> > wrote:
>>> I've been trying all day to build LuaTeX from the sources on my new 
>>> computer
>>> with no success.
>>>
>>> I'm using Msys (with MinGW) under Windows 7, and the build ends with:
> [...]
>
> Hmm.. You have no success, Luigi has half success (does not work on 
> generic shell) and I'm the lucky one with no problems. Today I've made 
> yet another test on clean machine with win7 64bit. Here is what I do:
>
> install mingw; link to fresh installer is on
>     http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
>
> install msys
>     http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.11.exe
>
> I install both things into the same tree C:\Gnu and add C:\Gnu\bin to 
> PATH. Then I go into luatex sources root and hit
>
>     sh build.sh
>
> No changes to that script, no patches to sources. The output luatex 
> executable just works for me under both cmd and msys shell. What we do 
> different?
The interesting thing is that what you've done here I've done it on 
another computer (with Windows 7) and everything went fine; I can't see 
what I've done differently now, but I'll give it a new try (and add to 
the path...)

Best,
Paul