Re: Beginner question: How to build meta post only

Hi Reinhard

Thank you for suggesting Build. Please confirm that the resulting mpost is
standalone. I ask because I was expecting dependencies on texlive and
perhaps other shared objects.

Kind regards
Jonathan

On Fri, 12 Dec 2025, 13:10 Reinhard Kotucha via tex-live, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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