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

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2016-07-01 at 09:53:43 +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:

 > Does this mean that it is now possible for "normal" Windows users
 > such as myself (people who have no familiarity with C or with
 > packages such as "autoconf", etc., to compile [1] Windows 64-bit
 > binaries for themselves ?  I ask because when I asked earlier about
 > compiling TeX under Windows, I understood from Akira-san that a
 > great deal of manual intervention was required which he did not
 > have time to document; is this no longer the case ?

Hello Phil,
do you *want* to compile the binaries yourself?  An alternative is to
steal them from Akira's W32TeX.  The file

  http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/w32tex/current/win64/xetex-w64.tar.xz

is just two days old and very likely contains the latest fix.

As far as your question is concerned, my experience is that it is
*much* easier to compile programs on Linux and Cygwin rather than with
MinGW. Thus I suppose that Akira's binaries are a very good
alternative, at least if your main intention isn't to compile the
binaries yourself.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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