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64bit Windows binaries for TeX Live

TeX Live provides only 32bit binaries for Windows for various reasons. However users of 64bit Windows can easily install 64bit TeX environment by obtaining tl-win64.zip at

Please read 00README.TLW64 carefully.

A simple installer

• [ texinstwin.zip ]

If you do not have a suitable program to expand .zip files, get a simple command line application [ unzip.exe ] by InfoZip.

Expand the file texinstwin.zip in the top directory (e.g., c:/w32tex) to install TeX:
Note that the name of the top directory shoud not contain
non-ascii characters and spaces.
If texinstwin.zip is in the directory c:/temp, type on the console as follows:

  c:
  md \w32tex
  cd \w32tex
  unzip c:/temp/texinstwin.zip

Next, download necessary archives in a suitable directory (e.g., c:/temp) and run the installer as follows:

  c:
  cd \w32tex
  texinstwin c:/temp
  move *.exe bin

The argument of the command texinstwin is the full path name of the directory in which archives are downloaded. Finally define the PATH variable which is printed on the screen by the command texinstwin.

Minimal installation

Standard installation

Full installation

Sources of W32TeX

• [ w32tex-src.tar.xz ]
  (About 75MB. Sources are not the latest ones. They are updated only once a year, sorry.)

Previewer

• [ CTAN/dviware/dviout/ ]
  "dviout" by T. Oshima is an excellent previewer which supports pTeX, jTeX and others.

XeTeX for W32

Installation of XeTeX for W32

(1) XeTeX is basically installed in the standard installation.

(2) To complete the installation,
    Edit the section "Find fonts in these directories" in the file
    RootDir/share/texmf-dist/fonts/conf/fonts.conf.
    The default content of the section is
  <dir>c:/windows/fonts</dir>
    If that is ok and you do not have additional directories
    for fonts, you need not edit the file fonts.conf.
    If the name of the directory of windows system fonts is
    different from c:/windows/fonts, you must edit the file
    fonts.conf. You can add directories for fonts if you have
    additional fonts by using the file
    RootDir/share/texmf-dist/fonts/conf/local.conf. For example:
  <dir>c:/w32tex/share/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype</dir>
  <dir>c:/w32tex/share/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype</dir>
    (Note that the file local.conf is distributed by the name local.conf.dist.
     Thus users have to rename the local.conf.dist as local.conf.)

    Subdirectories are automatically searched.

(3) Run a command
    fc-cache -v
    on the console. This command creates cache files in
    RootDir/share/texmf-dist/fonts/cache by scanning font files
    in the above directories. Note that this command needs
    a few minutes if there are many large font files.

    Now you can enjoy xetex or xelatex.


    Names of supported fonts will be printed in a file by
    fc-list  :  file  fullname   >namelist.txt
    in utf8 encoding.

Maintenance of XeTeX for W32

    If you have edited the file "fonts.conf", run a command
    fc-cache -v
    on the console.

    If you have added new font files in a directory,
    run a command
    fc-cache -v
    on the console.

    If there are some errors, run the command
    fc-cache -v
    once more.

Japanese sample of XeTeX output

• [ Japanese in XeTeX ]

LuaTeX-DEV for W32

--- libpng 1.6.37 ---
--- libpplib ---

• [ luatex-dev-w32.tar.xz ]

This is a W32 port of the latest test version of LuaTeX under development. Note that this is not the released LuaTeX and features may change.

LuajitTeX-DEV for W32

--- libpng 1.6.37 ---
--- libpplib ---

• [ luajittex-dev-w32.tar.xz ]

This is a W32 port of the latest test version of LuajitTeX under development. Note that this is not the released LuajitTeX and features may change.

ispell-3.4.00 for W32

• [ ispell-3.4.00-w32.tar.xz ]
  This is ispell-3.4.00 for Win32 compiled by Microsoft VC++. Expand in a suitable temporary directory and read a document README.w32.english.
• [ ispell-3.4.00-w32-src.tar.xz ]
  Source of ispell-3.4.00 for Win32.