[XeTeX] Compile XeTeX on Windows

[jeremiah johnson]

/me reads the start of this thread.

Nevermind.

On Jan 16, 2008 6:47 PM, jeremiah johnson <naikrovek at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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