[XeTeX] Compile XeTeX on Windows

[jeremiah johnson]

MikTeX now (as of 2.7) includes XeTeX, and it works wonderfully.  I've
completely dropped pdflatex in favor of xelatex and I doubt I'll look back
anytime soon.

Perhaps that would be the easiest choice, based on whatever your needs are.
I don't actually know the difference between a direct XeTeX port and what
MikTeX provides, I just know that what MikTeX provides is all I'm likely to
need for a while.

http://MikTeX.org

jeremiah

On Jan 16, 2008 2:39 PM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:

> On 16 Jan 2008, at 7:44 pm, Lobsang Sonam wrote:
>
> > Hi, all:
> >
> >       I want to compile a Windows version of my modified XeTeX and
> > searched goole, but cannot find any hint on how to compile it.
> >
> >       Should I use Cygwin like unix style environment, or just use the
> > win32.mak makefile?
> > The win32.mak file includes <msvc/subdirs.mak>, I found pointers
> > about them on google to other TeX related packages.
>
> I wouldn't expect the win32.mak files in the xetex tree to work as-
> is; they're just leftovers from the texlive tree that I started from,
> and haven't been updated/modified for xetex at all.
>
> Akira Kakuto builds the xetex binaries used in tex live; see the
> W32TeX page for more information. I assume this is done using
> customized makefiles and Visual C tools. IIRC, there's a source
> archive available there as well as the binaries. So you could look at
> this.
>
> Alternatively, I expect it should be possible to use Cygwin, but
> there will almost certainly be some configuration adjustments needed;
> I don't know if anyone has actually built xetex that way.
>
> Personally, I'd like to have a Linux-hosted (or Mac-hosted) cross-
> compilation setup, using the gcc cross-compiler and mingw32. But I
> haven't had the time to actually get all this set up and working.
>
> JK
>
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