From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15869 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Salman Khilji Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: PDFTeX sources Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:44:37 -0700 Organization: NA Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <200407292044.37533.skhilji@tampabay.rr.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091148604 17846 80.91.224.253 (30 Jul 2004 00:50:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jul 30 02:49:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BqLau-0007lr-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:49:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE9E126F8; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:49:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26562-09; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:49:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DBA12777; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:49:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B5F812777 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:49:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26626-06-2 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:49:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ms-smtp-05.tampabay.rr.com (unknown [65.32.5.135]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E5D126F8 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:49:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 142-122.35-65.tampabay.rr.com (142-122.35-65.tampabay.rr.com [65.35.122.142]) by ms-smtp-05.tampabay.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id i6U0nhCE007538 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:49:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15869 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15869 1) I want to know the simplest way (and the minimal way) to compile PDFTeX on Windows. From the manual, I see that you have to download web-7.3.tar.gz web2c-7.3.tar.gz pdftex.tar.gz However, this assumes that you have ./configure available (means UNIX or Cygwin). While I have been using Linux for the past two years, I'm afraid, I am too incompetent, dumb, lazy, stupid, and stubborn to learn autoconf and autotools---I want to know exactly what steps are performed while compiling the program and it would be best understood if I had a simple Visual C++ project file to work with. I want to be able to compile pdfTeX from sources using an already available DSP (MS Visual C++ project file)---this means it should somehow use an already existing config.h file. I downloaded the MikTeX sources, but it comes with 65535 other files and directories that I do not need and also mandates the download of Cygwin. 2) Basically, I want to learn a little about the internals of pdfTeX to investigate if I can take the PDF specific C source code out of it and somehow use then in the TeX++ project (which is a reincarnation of CommonTeX, which was an implementation of TeX written in C from scratch by Pat Monardo). I must admit that TeX++ is a piece of cake to install and compile simply because there is no autoconf and autotools to convolute the project. I have been reading TeX, the program these days from cover to cover and comparing the source code to the TeX++ sources and the two are as close as it can get. So I suppose, one could take PDFTeX, strip it out of the web2c files, massage the rest to fit TeX++, and have an easy to compile, and extend version of TeX that produces PDF files directly. Any inputs on this matter? Salman