<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 10:22 AM Angelo Graziosi <<a href="mailto:angelo.g0@libero.it">angelo.g0@libero.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Konstantin Podsvirov wrote:<br>
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> See also [3] and [4].<br>
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> [4]: <a href="https://tug.org/pipermail/tlbuild/2015q3/003317.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tug.org/pipermail/tlbuild/2015q3/003317.html</a><br>
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Luigi Scarso wrote:<br>
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> Last year i have cross-compiled texlive from ubuntu 18.04 LTS to <br>
> mingw64, see <a href="https://gitlab.com/luigiScarso/texlive-mingw64" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/luigiScarso/texlive-mingw64</a><br>
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Why then, TL team does not add this as new port for TL2021, for example?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Basically, the current win32 works for 32bit *and* 64bit, it's compiled with the MS compiler, </div><div>it's well tested, stabled and maintained (see <a href="http://www.w32tex.org">http://www.w32tex.org</a>) all over the year. </div><div>No reason to change.</div><div><br></div><div></div><div></div></div><div>On the other hand, texlive-mingw64 works only with win 64bit and I have not time to maintain it as it should. </div><div>It's true that it's easy (almost...) to build it from the texlive sources;<br></div><div>if actively supported I guess that it could be a link <a href="https://tug.org/texlive">https://tug.org/texlive</a></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">luigi<br></div></div>