$Id: README 74435 2025-03-04 17:01:16Z karl $
Public domain.  Originally written 2005 by Karl Berry.

For a high-level overview of building TeX Live, see
http://tug.org/texlive/build.html.  In brief:

- To configure and make the source tree, run ./Build.
  This builds in subdirectory Work/, and installs into subdirectory inst/.

- To build (mostly) without optimization, run ./Build --debug.

- If the make fails and you want to rebuild without starting from scratch:
  cd Work/whatever/subdir && make

Email tlbuild@tug.org if problems.

(Nearly everything the Build script does can be overridden via
environment variables; just take a look to see the names.)

Many more details about the TL build system, such as configuring to work
on a single program, adding new programs or libraries, documentation
about the many pieces of the system, etc., are in the doc/tlbuild*
document and the sibling README* files here (which are generated from
that document).


Build information for some of the platforms.
See also Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-bindir.

aarch64-linux: Built on github, see below;
  except for asy, by jhielscher on Fedora 41 (glibc 2.40, GCC 14.2.1).
  ./Build --enable-arm-neon=on

armhf-linux: github, see below.

x86_64-cygwin: gcc-10.2.0, cygwin-3.1.7
  TL_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--enable-xindy --enable-shared CLISP=/path/to/clisp.exe
    LDFLAGS='-Wl,--no-insert-timestamp -Wl,--stack,0x800000'" \
  ./Build
  
i386-freebsd amd64-freebsd: github, see below.

i386-linux: github, see below.

i386-netbsd, amd64-netbsd:
  NetBSD/amd64 10.1
    TL_MAKE=gmake CC=gcc CXX=g++ \
    CFLAGS=-D_NETBSD_SOURCE \
    CXXFLAGS='-D_NETBSD_SOURCE -std=c++17' \
    LDFLAGS='-L/usr/X11R7/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R7/lib' \
  ./Build --enable-xindy CLISP=/usr/local/bin/clisp

i386-solaris, x86_64-solaris: github, see below.

universal-darwin: See Master/source/mactexdoc.tar.xz.

windows:
  Makefiles written by hand, see Master/source/windows-src.tar.xz.
  Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2015.

x86_64-darwinlegacy: Built on ConTeXtGarden.
  Mac OS X 10.6, clang 5.0, libc++ required
  auxiliary installer binaries: Mac OS X 10.6, gcc -std=c99.
  https://github.com/TeXLive-M/texlive-buildbot
  http://build.contextgarden.net/waterfall?tag=c/texlive
  (These links have info on all platforms built by Mojca.)

x86_64-linux,
x86_64-linuxmusl,
and others noted above for github:
  built at https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/releases.
  see ./github/scripts/build-tl.sh and workflows/main.yml.
  Some asy binaries are also built here; see */build-asy.*.