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authorPeter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>2009-11-10 10:34:20 +0000
committerPeter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>2009-11-10 10:34:20 +0000
commite4cae97633d68af424aef1494462550cef2dadeb (patch)
tree0e82baf23b3900e995c132775fc75213c0984cf4 /Build/source/README.cross
parent558303c70cdfd3bc2465cb99c2f8d81a64efcf31 (diff)
towards TL2010: build system
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@15977 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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@@ -9,20 +9,30 @@ i386-pc-mingw32 on a (different) BUILD system, e.g, x86_64-linux-gnu specify
the configure options
--host=i386-pc-mingw32 --build=x86_64-linux-gnu
-You may need `cross' tools properly installed as, e.g., i386-pc-mingw32-cc
-in your PATH. Configure arguments such as CFLAGS=... refer to this cross
-compiler.
+You should have `cross' tools properly installed as, e.g.,
+i386-pc-mingw32-cc in your PATH or specify them as configure arguments,
+e.g., CC=<mingw32-cross-compiler>; arguments such as CFLAGS=... refer to
+this cross compiler. Here a preliminary list of such tools and
+corresponding variables:
+ ar AR
+ freetype-config FT2_CONFIG
+ g++ CXX
+ gcc CC
+ icu-config ICU_CONFIG
+ objdump OBJDUMP
+ pkg-config PKG_CONFIG
+ ranlib RANLIB
+ strip STRIP
-If necessary, you can specify a compiler and flags for the few auxiliary C
-programs required for the build process as configure arguments
+If necessary, you can specify compilers and flags for the few auxiliary C
+and C++ programs required for the build process as configure arguments
BUILDCC=...
BUILDCPPFLAGS=...
BUILDCFLAGS=...
+ BUILDCXX=...
+ BUILDCXXFLAGS=...
BUILDLDFLAGS=...
-Building the Web2C programs requires installed versions of tangle, ctangle,
-and tie (and possibly otangle and/or luatangle).
-
-At the moment a cross compilation of xetex is not possible, because the
-icu-xetex library does not support cross compilation.
+Building the Web2C programs requires sufficiently recent installed versions
+of tangle, ctangle, and tie (and possibly otangle and/or luatangle).