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I might know what is causing this. I got a very similar error because I didn't have Git installed. In cli/build.rs there is a line that tries to fetch the current Git revision to add to the environment. This also causes problems when you build Typst in a non-repository (ergo a directory without a .git) as the truncation on line 7 of that same file panics.

This makes Git an undocumented de-facto dependency of Typst, which I personally don't think is good. The revision is also only ever used in println!() statements, which don't really add any benefit apart from development.

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From what I've gathered, they are working on removing those git dependencies to be able to package it properly.
That way, it'll soon be just a simple cargo install typst away, the crate name is already reserved.

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I pushed a fix for this. When git is unavailable, the build script fails gracefully now.

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I might know what is causing this. I got a very similar error because I didn't have Git installed. In cli/build.rs there is a line that tries to fetch the current Git revision to add to the environment. This also causes problems when you build Typst in a non-repository (ergo a directory without a .git) as the truncation on line 7 of that same file panics.

@imatpot thanks for chasing this down, you are a cool guy :)

This makes Git an undocumented de-facto dependency of Typst, which I personally don't think is good. The revision is also only ever used in println!() statements, which don't really add any benefit apart from development.

I strongly agree with this paragraph. The whole reason I came to Typst, is because I hate the bloated and complicated process of setting up a LaTeX environment. The smaller, less dependencies, and simpler/faster the build process can be, the better. So to anyone listening, please remove the Git requirement, unless its absolutely needed.

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I pushed a fix for this. When git is unavailable, the build script fails gracefully now.

confirmed thanks! @laurmaedje, can you clarify what process is used for building the release? I did this:

cargo build -p typst-cli --release

then ran strip on the result, and the executable is still 22.4 MB. compared to this:

https://github.com/typst/typst/releases/download/22-03-21-2/typst-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip

which when extracted is 17.8 MB. or this:

https://github.com/typst/typst/releases/download/22-03-21/typst-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip

which is only 11.2 MB.

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It shouldn't do anything special. You can see all steps here: https://github.com/typst/typst/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yml

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looks like building without fonts:

cargo build -p typst-cli --release --no-default-features

and then strip typst reduces down to 15.8 MB. good enough!

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