[XeTeX] How do I build xdvipdfmx (or xdv2pdf) on Windows?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 7 Mar 2008, at 1:17 pm, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 7 mars 08 à 13:52, Jonathan Kew a écrit :
>
>> I just "hid" my installed png libs (by moving /usr/local/lib and / 
>> usr/
>> local/include aside), and build-xetex still runs successfully for me.
>> The default build script is supposed to use its own static libs
>> anyway, ignoring any you have installed. So I'm not sure that's the
>> problem in this case.
>>
>> When configure quits, it should leave a config.log file; that may
>> provide more clue as to what's failing.
>
> I just tried on another Mac (both on OS X 10.5.2), and get the same  
> error with build-xetex. Appended is TRUNK/Work/texk/xdvipdfmx/ 
> config.log

OK, I think this must be some kind of issue with the Leopard dev  
tools (I'm still running Tiger here). Your log includes things like:

configure:2950: checking for suffix of executables
configure:2957: gcc -o conftest.dSYM    conftest.c  >&5
configure:2960: $? = 0
configure:2984: result: .dSYM

which is clearly wrong, and has something to do with the change to  
the default debugging format in 10.5.

I'm not sure why this is happening only in the xdvipdfmx configure  
script, and not earlier, but I'll try to get a Leopard system  
installed and check it out. Might not get done until next week, though.

JK