[Dev-luatex] Compiling LuaTeX on Windows
Graham Douglas
graham.douglas at readytext.co.uk
Thu Sep 9 20:23:05 CEST 2010
luigi scarso wrote:
>>
>
> I'm newby on windows 7, but I would like to compile
> luatex with MingW32 -- and I need help .
>
Hi Luigi!
Here's what I have under Windows Vista
(1) I have MSYS installed under
C:\msys\1.0\bin
which I think is the default install location
(2) The "bash shell" is run via the following batch file
C:\msys\1.0\msys.bat -norxvt
--- the install creates a shortcut to this
and places it on your desktop
(3) I have MinGW installed under
c:\MinGW
--- again, the default
(4) Within MSYS there is a file called "fstab" located
under
c:\msys\1.0\etc\
You'll need to edit this to tell MSYS where
things are --- a sort of mapping I guess. For example
My directory c:/LuaTeX (source code) is mapped to
/luatexbeta
with a line in fstab like this
c:/LuaTeX /luatexbeta
so that when I run the "bash shell" I do
cd /luatexbeta
to go to the LuaTeX source code, which is updated
by Tortoise SVN client (excellent + free)
(5) From memory I recall that I had to manually install
gcc/gdb into MinGW --- here:
c:\MinGW\bin\
(I really can't recall if it was gcc or gdb (debugger) which
I had to install)
(6) To compile LuaTeX I start MSYS via the shortcut to the batch file
-- as discussed above
Then I type
cd /luatexbeta
and then all I do is type
build.sh
actually I do
build.sh --nostrip
to leave symbols in for debugging with gdb
(7) Go and gab a coffee.
Hope that helps
Graham
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