[luatex] Building LuaTeX.

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Paul Isambert <zappathustra at free.fr> wrote:
>  Le 29/09/2010 16:16, luigi scarso a écrit :
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Paul Isambert<zappathustra at free.fr>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  Le 29/09/2010 12:42, luigi scarso a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Paul Isambert<zappathustra at free.fr>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Le 29/09/2010 12:19, Taco Hoekwater a écrit :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 09/29/10 12:17, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> libgcc_s_dw2 is one of the gcc runtime support libraries (for the
>>>>>>> dwarf
>>>>>>> debugging format, I assume) so it sounds like either the dll search
>>>>>>> path
>>>>>>> is messed up, or you are missing a package in this particular msys
>>>>>>> install.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Side note: one of the somewhat confusing things in mingw32 is that
>>>>>> it does not actually need the dll files to do a successful linking
>>>>>> of the final executable (it uses a special preprocessed file for
>>>>>> that stage), but it *does* need all dlls at runtime.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is the dll indeed (so this also answers Luigi's question).
>>>>> The
>>>>> missing package seems a promising idea, since when I was on the other
>>>>> computer (where the build was successful), I made many side
>>>>> installations,
>>>>>  but I can't remember which...
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Paul
>>>>>
>>>> with
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20100831/mingw-get-inst-20100831.exe/download
>>>>
>>>> libgcc_s_dw is in c:\MinGW\bin
>>>> which in turn is on my path
>>>
>>> I have it too (precisely, libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll). If I put it in LuaTeX's
>>> folder, along with another one which is also missing, and can be found in
>>> MinGW/bin too, namely libstdc++-6.dll, then LuaTeX works.
>>>
>>> It's has if there missed a link toward those dll, which LuaTeX should
>>> find
>>> by itself (as I've repeated several times, I'm ignorant on such things,
>>> so I
>>> might be saying pure nonsense).
>>
>> Do you have them in your PATH variable ?
>
> Now I do and everything works fine. The problem came from space between
> paths in the variable. Now I know there shouldn't be any!
Yes, it' safe .
You can also use quotes as in "C:\Program Files\MinGW\bin"
but it's better to avoid spaces in paths and filenames.



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luigi