[tex-live] 64 bits version of TeX Live on Windows

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 07/07/2016 19:11, Vincent Torri ha scritto
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Angelo Graziosi
>  wrote:
>>
>> here things are a bit different.
>>
>> I installed MSYS2 from the tarball msys2-base-x86_64-20160205.tar.xz, then,
>> after setup steps, I installed a bunch of packages:
>
> why did'nt you use the installer ?
>

I don't like it, the links it puts on Start menu and so on... With the 
tarball I have developed a simple and efficient setup.. :)

>>
>> pacman -S --needed base
>> pacman -S --needed base-devel
>> ...
>>
>
> well, maybe there are some useless packages. I have installed only
> what should be needed for Tex Live (except the autotools). So it's
> minimal in that sense.

But I haven't installed them to build TL! it is my normal usage of MSYS2...

>>
>> I tried the build from MINGW64 shell (that started with
>> C:\msys64\mingw64.exe), and tried first:
>>
>> ./Build --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32
>
> is there a good reason to use the Build script over configure ?
>

it should be the standard way to build TL, as suggested 
(https://www.tug.org/texlive/build.html)

>
> i prefered not installing icu from msys2 as it should work as is. So

here it is installed as dependency of some other package.. i don't 
remember which..

> there is something wrong here that needs some fixes

indeed... :(

Angelo