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

[Vincent Torri]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Angelo Graziosi
<angelo.graziosi at alice.it> wrote:
> Akira Kakuto wrote:
>>
>> See CTAN/systems/win32/w32tex/TLW64/
>> Please read 00README.TLW64 carefully.
>
>
> I wonder if we can install TL2016 from MSYS2 shell using the Perl script
> install-tl with the "-custom-bin" option.
>
> BTW, I tried to build TL2016 many months ago with MSYS2/MINGW64 [1] and
> there were some build issues.. I tried to call attention [2] but none took
> care of it.
>
> I think that TL W64 binaries can be created adding MSYS2/MINGW64 as new TL
> platform but it need the help of TL gurus.. (as we did when Cygwin was
> added...)
>
> This could/should be one of the goals of the next 2017 release..
>
> Ciao,
>  Angelo.
>
> ---
> [1] MSYS2 is a fork from Cygwin which aims to build apps natively for W64
> (https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/Home).
>
> [2] http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tlbuild/2015q3/003317.html
>     https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/tickets/197

Maybe this could help : http://stackoverflow.com/a/13792251/688348

Vincent Torri