[tex-live] Developer tools

[Axel E. Retif]

On  10 Mar, 2009, at 06:15, Norbert Preining wrote:

> On Di, 10 Mär 2009, enrico.gregorio at univr.it wrote:
>> Yesterday I saw the announcement of a new version of dvisvgm, which  
>> appears to be a nice program.
>> However I couldn't start the compilation, since TeX Live misses the  
>> header files for kpathsea.
>
> Not only the header files, also the library itself.
>
> Does dvisvgm not include its own copy of kpathsea?
>
>> Wouldn't it be possible to make them available? Of course they will  
>> be in some non standard place
>> (something like /usr/local/texlive/2008/include, maybe), but it's  
>> easy to make gcc aware of it.
>
> And, in addition the static library would be needed.
>
> AFAIR we had that some time ago but it was removed, don't remember.
>
> You can get the sources from the DVD or the web, build your own
> libkpathsea.a and use the headers for dvisvgm.

If you feel comfortable building all that yourself, certainly it's the  
best route; otherwise, I seem to remember that the *unsupported* gwTeX  
(for Mac OS X)

http://www.rna.nl/tex.html

has all headers, libraries and static libraries. If you think this  
might be a solution for you, please ask in the TeX on Mac OS mailing  
list if that's so:

http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

Also, *if* that suits you, remember you can shift from one TeX distro  
to another:

http://www.tug.org/mactex/multipletexdistributions.html

Best,

Axel

P.S. Whatever you do, please notify us ---I'm interested in dvisvgm  
myself (also on Mac OS).