[tlbuild] Patches for mingw

[luigi scarso]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 10:17 PM Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at bitmuis.nl> wrote:

> Attached some patches for win64 compilation.
>
> Current status:
>
> I managed to cross-compile TL for win64, using mingw packages from
> my distro (archlinux), and the recommended versions, compiled from
> source, of autotools.
>
> Because of some as yet unresolved problems, I omitted synctex,
> dvisvgm and xetex from the default set. Hitex did not compile
> either.
>
> I did some light testing. Things basically worked, although
> [pdf|lua]latex format files were not compatible.
>
> With these same patches I also did a native compile, this time with
> the more modern ucrt runtime rather than the classic msvcrt runtime,
> with similar results. For more on ucrt, see
> https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/.
>

The last time I compiled texlive was in June, without patches;
I have however used several auxiliary programs (fontconfig for xetex for
example).
I could try again with the current texlive, just in case.
-- 
luigi
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