From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15871 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: PDFTeX sources Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:43:48 +0200 Organization: Elvenkind Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20040730094348.4973286a.taco@elvenkind.com> References: <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 1091173448 26508 80.91.224.253 (30 Jul 2004 07:44:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 07:44:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jul 30 09:43:57 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 1BqS3Z-0005di-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:43:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106471278A; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:43:57 +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 28108-05-5; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:43:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA8C512784; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:43:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B9412784 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:43:53 +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 28108-05-4 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:43:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl (unknown [213.46.243.27]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ADF71277A for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:43:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hal.chatalicious.net ([62.163.240.169]) by amsfep15-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with SMTP id <20040730074352.LMSX19717.amsfep15-int.chello.nl@hal.chatalicious.net> for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:43:52 +0200 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200407292044.37533.skhilji@tampabay.rr.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) 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:15871 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15871 On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:44:37 -0700 Salman Khilji wrote: > 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 > > 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. I don't think there is an 'easy and minimal way' atm, especially not for pdftex which needs a number of libraries available at compile time. > 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 Isolation would be very hard I believe. pdftex makes changes all over (e.g. to allow justification improvements and creation of arbitrary pdf objects). > 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). Tell me more (off-list), it seems we are doing more or less the same thing! You might want to look at the sources on this location: http://www.metatex.org/ The CXTeX sources are not bug-free, but it compiles usable pdf documents cf. "pdfetex". They are based on a manual conversion (by me) of the web sources. It is a lot easier to setup than a full blown TeX installation, but it does use autoconf, so it will need some work to get it compile without msys/cygwin. Greetings, Taco