Buildbot for TeX Live binaries

This is a buildbot setup that's intended to build TeX Live binaries for various platforms.

• https://build.contextgarden.net/

Binaries

The binaries currently being compiled include:

• Full TeX Live tree (sources)
• LuaTeX
• LuaMetaTeX
• pplib

The list of other build candidates includes:

• Asymptote, including:
  • FFTW (fast Fourier transform library)
  • GSL (GNU Scientific Library)
  • GNU Readline
• xindy, including:
  • libffcall
  • libsigsegv
  • clisp
• Biber
• xz
• wget
• gpg

Platforms

The binaries are being built on:

• Mac OS X 10.6, macOS 10.13 (x86_64)
• Solaris 10 (sparc, i386, x86_64)
• GNU/Linux (arm) – Raspbian on Raspberry PI 4
• GNU/Linux (aarch64) – Ubuntu 20.10 on Raspberry PI 4
• GNU/Linux Debian 8 & 9 (i386, x86_64)
• GNU/Linux Alpine with musl (x86_64)
• FreeBSD 11.4 (i386, amd64)
• OpenBSD 6.7 & 6.8 (i386, amd64)
• MinGW-w64 cross-compiler (win32, win64)
• Visual Studio 16 2019 (i386, x86_64, arm64)

It might be nice to also include:

• NetBSD

Credits and Special thanks

• Mark and Johnny from Jožef Stefan Institute for providing the main server
• Hans Hagen at Pragma ADE for providing the VM infrastructure
• Dagobert Michelsen from the OpenCSW project for providing access to Solaris machines
• Norbert Preining, Karl Berry, Akira Kakuto and the rest of the TeX Live team

Contact

This has been set up by Mojca Miklavec with help of Alan Braslau. Feel free to ask questions on the TeX Live mailing list.