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[taco <taco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Münster wrote:
> > I have just
> > figured out something that I wasn't really aware of. Cygwin needs .exe
> > files, so simply adding a platform won't work out of the box. I need
> > to rewrite quite some bits of code if I want the automated scripts to
> > start working.
>
> Are you sure?  No special attention was needed in first-setup.sh and
> platform.sh. I was quite surprised, that "cp dir1/luatex dir2" copies
> "luatex.exe" under cygwin!


If I recall correctly, the file still has to have a .exe extension
for cygwin to be able to execute it, even though it tries hard to
hide such un-unixy things. But maybe this limitation has been
lifted under the newer versions of Windows?

> > In the meantime it would be great to get a patch to recognize cygwin
> > incorporated into luatex and luatools, so that it will start working
> > out-of-the-box once I fix the rest.
> >
> > Taco will tell if anything needs to be done about luatex binary.

Not sure about 'needs to be done', but I iirc cygwin knows
about symlinks, so a symlink from luatex[.exe] to texlua and
texluac would be more efficient than the normal win32
solution.

Best wishes,
Taco