[XeTeX] Building on Intel Mac

Bruno Voisin bvoisin at mac.com
Sun Nov 26 23:36:52 CET 2006


Le 26 nov. 06 à 21:02, Jon Breitenbucher a écrit :

> I am trying to build the latest of everything (xetex, xelatex, and
> anything else that is installed by the XeTeX installer for OS X) for
> Gerben's new TeXLive based i-Package which is located at /usr/local/
> TeXLive.

There are instructions at the end of <http://tug.org/pipermail/ 
macostex-archives/2006-November/026079.html>.

Quoting myself:

> What I do personally (but I wouldn't advise it to others): install
> the TeX i-Package (either teTeX- or TeXLive-based), then compile and
> install XeTeX from source on top of it. In case you feel adventurous,
> here's how it goes (the following assumes you've got Apple's Xcode
> installed already):
>
> - Get the XeTeX and xdvipdfmx source tarballs at:
>
> <http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xetex/TRUNK.tar.gz?view=tar>
> <http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xdvipdfmx/TRUNK.tar.gz?view=tar>
>
> - Follow the instructions (originally for Linux) at:
>
> <http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?
> site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex_linux#96c5d158-06a931b7>
>
> Minimal adaptation is required for xdvipdfmx.
>
> - For XeTeX this means, after unpacking the tarball TRUNK.tar.gz to ~/
> Desktop/xetex/TRUNK say, that you type in Terminal ($ represents the
> prompt):
>
> $ cd Desktop/xetex/TRUNK
> $ sh build-xetex
> $ sudo sh install-xetex
>
> - For xdvipdfmx this means, after unpacking the tarball TRUNK.tar.gz
> to ~/Desktop/xdvipdfmx say, that you type in Terminal:
>
> $ cd Desktop/xdvipdfmx/TRUNK
> $ sh configure --with-kpathsea=/usr/local/TeXLive --with-ft2lib=/usr/
> local/lib/libfreetype.a --with-ft2include=/usr/local/include/freetype2
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
>
> The second instruction (starting with "sh configure" and ending with
> "freetype2") should all go on one line, even if this list's email
> server breaks it into several lines. I would never have found the
> required environment settings on this line myself; credit goes of
> course to Jonathan Kew on the XeTeX mailing list.
>
> You're done!

Bruno Voisin


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