[pdftex] compiling pdftex in Delphi

[Carlo Masotti]

Hello Karl, thanks for your answer.

I think that translating all that c stuff in pascal isn't a challenge 
that I can win.

Maybe it's possible:

a) tangle pdfweb.web to  obtain pdftex.pas

b) packing all the c and c++ code  in a cstuff.dll that expose all the 
external functions that pdftex.pas calls.

c) compiling  pdftex.pas  with a pascal/Delphi compiler statically 
linked with cstuff.dll .

do you think it's possible to create cstuff.dll starting from pdftex 
source code?


On 14/12/2019 14:25, Karl Berry wrote:
>      Can someone tell me if pdfTex uses some libraries written in C language?
>
> Yes, it certainly does. Also some C++ (unfortunately). If you look in
> ../web2c/pdftexdir, you will see a lot of *.c and a couple *.cc source
> files. I believe some of the change file also depends on the web2c
> infrastructure, i.e., the eventual C compilation.  In addition, there
> are the external libraries such as zlib, libpng, and more. --good luck, karl.
>