[tex-live] texlive for win64

SUN Wenchang sunwch at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 17 02:41:51 CET 2009


Dear  Reinhard,

 

Thanks for your reply. 

 

Since I am not familiar with programming, I can not do that by myself. 

I thought it could be similar to compile the sources with a 64bit compiler as that for a 32bit one.

Now I understand that it is not an easy thing.

 

Anyway, I am happy to have TL2009 in a windows machine. And I express my sincere thanks to the developers.

 

Best Regards

Wenchang 


 
> From: reinhard.kotucha at web.de
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:03:01 +0100
> To: sunwch at hotmail.com
> CC: tex-live at tug.org
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] texlive for win64
> 
> On 16 November 2009 SUN Wenchang wrote:
> 
> > When will a 64-bit windows version of tex executalbes appear?
> 
> Hi Wenchang,
> you can be happy that there are 32-bit executables for Windows at all.
> You can't imagine how hard some people worked in order to make this
> possible. Without Akira there wouldn't be any Windows binaries at
> all, and without his help and patience, and Staszek's persistency,
> it's impossible to support Windows in TeX Live.
> 
> tlmgr and the installer (and all the stuff behind them) were written
> from scratch. At the beginning we thought that it's possible to
> provide elegant, efficient, maintainable, platform-independent Perl
> code. But Siep and Norbert (I don't have Windows and am not willing
> to spend money for it) encountered some severe Windows bugs quite soon
> and it took a lot of time to find out what's going on. Microsoft
> doesn't document bugs. Windows users have to investigate themselves. 
> 
> What we have now is a conglomeratioan of workarounds, which are
> significantly less efficient, less maintainable, and elegency of code
> turned out to be a dream quite soon. Life could be so much easier
> without Windows.
> 
> Wenchang, 
> you are asking for 64-bit binaries for Windows. I don't object if
> anybody is willing to provide and maintain them. But are you aware
> that there is currently only ***one*** person ***worldwide*** who is
> able to compile TeX Live on Windows?
> 
> Every schoolboy can compile all the TeX Live binaries on a Unix
> platform of his choice, even if he doesn't know anything about
> computers or programming languages at all. But on Windows, everything
> is a pain.
> 
> Volunteers are welcome, masochists are preferred.
> 
> Regards,
> Reinhard
> 
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