[tlbuild] Patches for mingw

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 10:46:45PM +0100, luigi scarso wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I am curious how that will go.

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Siep Kroonenberg