[XeTeX] Building xetex issues?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 9 May 2010, at 07:12, Axel Kielhorn wrote:

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> Am 08.05.2010 um 22:57 schrieb Peter Dyballa:
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>> I ran into the same problem trying to compile an Universal Binary for 32- and 64-bit architectures on Leopard.

As has been stated in the past, 64-bit builds are not supported on OS X, because the 64-bit frameworks do not support some of the APIs that xetex uses.

The solution to this will involve a move from ATSUI to Core Text as the API used for native AAT font handling. I did this on an experimental basis some time ago, when Leopard was in beta (and more recently made the equivalent migration in Firefox, as it happens), so it's definitely workable, it just needs to actually be completed. And such a version will no longer run on 10.3.9 or 10.4, so there's a price to pay for moving to the newer APIs.

JK