[XeTeX] recent changes in XeTeX building

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 06:56:28PM +0100, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
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> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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> >- Is the 28 MB file on linux normal ?
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> No idea, but on Win32 it is approximately 1/10 of that : 2704Kb.
> This is as built by ?Akira?/?Tomek? : I do no building myself.

IIRC, on Windows the executable is just a wrapper, the actual code is
packaged in a form of shared library, this is to work around the lack of
symbolic links on some Windows filesystems (on Unix, xelatex is just a
symlink to xetex binary, but in windows both are wrappers for libxetex
of some sort).

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer