[tlbuild] --enable-hitex trial

[Richard Koch]

Karl,

On macOS, Arm, the entire tree compiles without errors and passes all tests. I got 460 executables. One of them is hitex.

I'll compile on macOS Intel tomorrow, but don't expect anything different.

Dick Koch

> On Dec 9, 2021, at 2:15 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello TL builders - tl,dr: please try a test build of current TL with
> --enable-hitex.  For now it is not enabled by default, but we hope to
> include it in TL22.
> 
> That is: ./Build --enable-hitex <other args>; or passing the arg to
> configure, if you do your own configure && make.
> 
> We've only compiled on our own systems (Slackware, CentOS, Windows),
> so there are surely portability problems. Hence this msg/request.
> 
> What it is: As some of you may know from his various articles and talks
> and svn commits, Martin Ruckert has been developing a new engine "hitex".
>  https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hint.userweb.mwn.de/__;!!C5qS4YX3!UJytArvw6wsEo-gnjMzX1W0BzXVxhpJQ6Y-_n3lEGRkJmAXRAGONIzufFCF-wnI$ 
>  https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/listauthor.html*Ruckert,Martin__;Iw!!C5qS4YX3!UJytArvw6wsEo-gnjMzX1W0BzXVxhpJQ6Y-_n3lEGRkJmAXRAGONIzufLxp3xRw$ 
> 
> This is that engine.  It uses his HINT output format, intended for
> display on mobile devices.  There are auxiliary programs histretch and
> hishrink to make hint files human-readable / compress-to-binary, a la
> tftopl / pltotf, etc.  These are in TL too, and compiled when hitex
> itself is.
> 
> Martin currently has HINT viewers for Android and Windows, plus one in
> development for (GNU/)Linux, linked from his web page. They rely on
> OpenGL. We may add the Linux viewer to TL as a separate "extra" a la
> asymptote, but let's get the engine working first.
> 
> Thanks,
> Karl