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

[Vincent Torri]

Hello,

On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Angelo Graziosi
<angelo.graziosi at alice.it> wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> Il 01/07/2016 23:37, Vincent Torri ha scritto:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Angelo Graziosi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Il 01/07/2016 18:34, Vincent Torri ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>> I use a framework which installs some useful dependencies, named
>>>> win-builds.
>>>
>>>
>>> So you are not using a pure MSYS2-MINGW64 system...
>>
>>
>> There is no pure MSYS2-MINGW-W64.
>>
>> There is MSYS2 which is a terminal which interprets some POSIX
>> features. Technically speaking, it has no relation at all with the
>> mingw-w64 project. To be more precise :
>>
>> MSYS1 is derived from the cygwin 1.5 terminal
>> MSYS2 is derived from the cygwin 1.8 terminal, which is itself derived
>> from mintty. MSYS2 provides the same package manager than Archlinux
>> (windows port of pacman).
>>
>> That's all.
>>
>> The mingw-w64 project is a gcc toolchain which aims at compiling
>> source files for Windows, 32 or 64 bits, natively (that is, without
>> any cygwin DLL dependency). It can be installed and can be used with
>> any terminal that can execute Windows programs (the Windows console,
>> MSYS1, MSYS2, ConEmu, Console2, etc...)
>>
>> That's all.
>
>
> I know the story of MSYS, MinGW, Cygwin, MSYS2 MINGW-W64 and so on (I used
> Cygwin when it was at release 1.2..)
>
> I know also the story of MinTTY, ConEmu (my default terminal) and so on ..
>
>>
>> Then from these 2 projects, you have some kind of MSYS2 + mingw-w64
>> "distro", that is some projects which install both MSYS2 and
>> mingw-w64, with different versions.
>>
>> What I do is installing MSYS2  as terminal, and I use win-builds which
>> install, among other libraries and program, the mingw-w64 toolchain
>
>
> You should still proof you are able to build Win64 binaries of TL using
> *only* MSYS2 [*] tools and packages..
>
> This is what I mean for "pure MSYS2"!

Ok, i'll try to do the compilation with only MSYS2. I'll try to write
a doc with all the steps. Don't expect that soon : i have few times
these days. But i'll definitely give it a try !

best regards

Vincent Torri