[XeTeX] XeTeX build on win32

[Jonathan Kew]

On 25 Feb 2008, at 12:04 pm, Moritz Angermann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> what is the supposed way to compile xetex on win32?

Akira Kakuto builds xetex (and other) binaries for his own W32TeX  
distribution and for TeX Live. I believe this is done using MSVC and  
makefiles that he has created, but I haven't looked into it closely.

There is a xetex source archive available from Akira's W32TeX page  
(see http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75- 
e.html), though this may correspond to the 0.996 release rather than  
the constantly-updated xetex-dev package.

I'd really like to have a MinGW-based build (either natively on  
Windows or, better still, using the cross-gcc toolchain), but haven't  
had the time to spend on getting all the tools and dependencies  
sorted out properly.

JK