tecto

Prebuilt Tectonic binary wheels for pip and uv.

One-off run (no install):

uvx tecto mydoc.tex        # compiles to mydoc.pdf
uvx tecto --help

Install globally with uv — adds both tecto and tectonic to your PATH:

uv tool install tecto
tectonic mydoc.tex         # or: tecto mydoc.tex

Or via pip into an environment:

pip install tecto
tectonic mydoc.tex

For multi-document projects with a Tectonic.toml manifest, use V2 mode: uvx tecto -X new myproj, then uvx tecto -X build. See the upstream docs for details.

What this is

tecto repackages the official upstream tectonic release binaries from https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/releases into platform-tagged Python wheels. There is no Python code — the wheel ships the native tectonic executable directly and pip drops it on your PATH.

Two commands are installed, both identical: tectonic (matches upstream so existing scripts and docs work) and tecto (matches the package name so uvx tecto works without --from).

Versions track upstream tectonic versions exactly.

Supported platforms

• macOS: arm64 (Apple Silicon), x86_64
• Linux: x86_64 (glibc + musl), aarch64 (musl)
• Windows: x86_64

Other platforms listed in the upstream release (32-bit, armv7) are not currently published; open an issue if you need one.

Relationship to upstream

This is an unofficial packaging project. Bug reports about tectonic itself belong upstream: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues. Bug reports about packaging, release automation, or missing platforms belong in this repository.