Re: Beginner question: How to build meta post only

On 2025-12-12 at 10:59:55 +0100, std300 wrote:

 > Hello all,
 > 
 > I'd like to build only the standalone MetaPost software (with debug
 > info), how can I do this?
 > 
 > I created a  work directory and ran
 > 
 > ../configure --disable-all-pkgs --enable-mp --without-x
 > 
 > but I cannot find the mpost executable.

Hi Patrick,
unless your coputer is very slow simply run ./Build in
trunk/Build/source.

This creates two files:

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 reinhard users 5357264 Dec 12 13:13 ./inst/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/mpost
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 reinhard users 5696384 Dec 12 13:07 ./Work/texk/web2c/mpost

The first one is stripped, the other contains debug symbols.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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