[XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

[Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:

> Chris, these statements have to be wrong, at least in part :
> if TeX does not link against Zlib, then neither does LaTeX --
> they are one and the same engine. -- ditto -- LibJpeg.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa :

> C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\v2.0>tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (Web2C 2010)
> **\end
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on texput.log.
>
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\v2.0>latex
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (Web2C 2010)
> **\end
> entering extended mode
> LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
> rman-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabi
> c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danis
> h, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, ethiopic, farsi, finnis
> h, french, galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, hungarian,
>  icelandic, assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, marathi, or
> iya, panjabi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kurmanji,
>  lao, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nynorsk, pol
> ish, portuguese, romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spani
> sh, swedish, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
>
> *

so they are not the same binary.  Sincere apologies, Chris.
** Phil.