[tex-live] Building pdflatex

Akira Kakuto kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp
Sat Mar 24 23:14:53 CET 2018


Dear Zdenek,

> latex and pdflatex executables exist on Windows
> only but as a wrapper written in lua which calls
> pdftex with &formatname.

Actually they are not wrappers, and they don't call
lua scripts. They use a common dynamic library pdftex.dll.
Accidentally, their size (1536 bytes) is the same as
that of script wrappers such as epstopdf.exe.

Thanks,
Akira



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