[tex-live] 64 bits version of TeX Live on Windows

[Philip Taylor]

Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Philip Taylor wrote:
>> Delighted to learn from Vincent Torri that one can, at least in
>> theory, build a 64-bit TeX Live for Windows, and having overcome
>> a couple of initial hurdles, I can now, like Vicent, perform a :
>>
>> ./Build --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
>>
>> within the context of an Msys command-line window.
>
> Which "Msys command-line window"?
>
> Please, explain..
At first I did not have Msys at all, and did not realise that it was needed.  Needless to say, "./Build" failed horribly at a CMD prompt.  I then installed "msys-base" from the MinGW GUI installer window (and later, mingw32-gcc-g++ and mingw-developer-toolkit, when I found that one or both were needed), created a shortcut called "Msys" in D:\MinGW\msys\1.0 with "Start in" set to D:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin as recommended in Msys.bat :
> rem ember to set the "Start in:" field of the shortcut.
> rem A value similar to C:\msys\1.0\bin is what the "Start in:" field needs
> rem to represent.
but still encountered problems (such as "No C compiler in path").

Finally I added D:\MinGW\bin, D:\Mingw\Msys\1.0 and D:\Mingw\Msys\1.0\bin to the front of the system-wide path, launched a normal CMD window (in order to pick up the modified path) and typed "Msys". 

That launched the Msys window to which I referred in my earlier message.

Whether this will allow me to compile and link XeTeX, I still do not know; it has been running now for about two hours, and still shews no signs of completion.  The incantation to launch this was taken and modified from Karl's "Build one package" instructions :

> # Create build directory:
> mkdir Work
> cd Work
> # Do the configure:
> ../configure --disable-all-pkgs --enable-xetex -C CFLAGS=-g CXXFLAGS=-g
>
> # Do the make:
> make
but I am not yet in a position to try :
> # Test:
> cd texk/dvipdfm-x
> make check
Of course, this is a 32-bit build; only once that works will I try to see if I can work out how to convert :

> ./Build --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 
into the corresponding incantations for "Configure" and/or "Make".

-- 

Philip Taylor


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