[tex-live] my experience of building TeX Live with Windows gcc 64 bits

[Vincent Torri]

Hello,

Dependency texinfo is needed. In MSYS2:

pacman -Sy texinfo

Vincent Torri


On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 7:13 AM, Vincent Torri <vincent.torri at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> after the checkout of the TeX Live tree,  I run
>
> ./Build --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --host =x86_64-w64-mingw32
>
> 1) In kpathsea,  I have several warnings of const/non const strings.
> For example, the first one:
>
> ../../../texk/kpathsea/expand.c: In function 'brace_expand':
> ../../../texk/kpathsea/expand.c:346:9: warning: passing argument 2 of
> 'kpathsea_IS_KANJI' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target
> type [enabled by default]
>          else if (kpathsea_IS_KANJI(kpse, p))
>          ^
> In file included from ../../../texk/kpathsea/../kpathsea/config.h:104:0,
>                  from ../../../texk/kpathsea/expand.c:20:
> ../../../texk/kpathsea/../kpathsea/knj.h:42:20: note: expected 'char
> *' but argument is of type 'const_string'
>  extern KPSEDLL int kpathsea_IS_KANJI(kpathsea kpse, char *p);
>                     ^
>
> I can provide all the warnings, if you want
>
>
> 2) I have an error during the build of the documentation of kpathsea:
>
> ../../../../texk/kpathsea/doc/kpathsea.texi:126: First argument to
> cross-reference may not be empty.
> ../../../../texk/kpathsea/doc/kpathsea.texi:127: First argument to
> cross-reference may not be empty.
> ../../../../texk/kpathsea/doc/kpathsea.texi:128: First argument to
> cross-reference may not be empty.
> ../../../../texk/kpathsea/doc/kpathsea.texi:137: First argument to
> cross-reference may not be empty.
> ../../../../texk/kpathsea/doc/kpathsea.texi:2356: First argument to
> cross-reference may not be empty.
> makeinfo: Removing output file
> `../../../../texk/kpathsea/doc/kpathsea.info' due to errors; use
> --force to preserve.
>
> regards
>
> Vincent Torri