[XeTeX] recent changes in XeTeX building

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Khaled Hosny wrote:

> IIRC, on Windows the executable is just a wrapper, the actual code is
> packaged in a form of shared library, this is to work around the lack of
> symbolic links on some Windows filesystems (on Unix, xelatex is just a
> symlink to xetex binary, but in windows both are wrappers for libxetex
> of some sort).

Hmmm, can't see any similarly named file under "bin\win32"; the
only two entries with "xetex" in their name are "xetex.exe" anf
"htxetex.exe", the latter being trivially small.  None of the DLLs
have anything vaguely resembling "xetex" in their names ...

** Phil.