[tlbuild] Stripping the luatex binary

Philipp Stephani st_philipp at yahoo.de
Fri Apr 8 12:03:05 CEST 2011


Am 08.04.2011 um 10:46 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:

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> Best wishes,
> 
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>> Yes, requiring a library to call external functions in a program seems to be uncommon on all systems, and is totally unsupported on Windows. That's why Lua uses a shared library instead on Windows, and I think it should do so on OS X, too.
> 
> That is planned for next year's luatex.

Do you know whether that requires recompilation of the extension modules? That is, could LuaTeX still load traditional extension modules that don't link against the shared LuaTeX library?


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