[XeTeX] Porting XeTeX
Joel C. Salomon
joelcsalomon at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 05:11:02 CET 2008
A question for Jonathan et al.: What is required of an operating
system to port XeTeX to it successfully? A C compiler? C++?
OS-level support for OpenType? Is porting freetype sufficient? A
different library?
I'm asking mainly because of Plan 9, a UNIX-like OS with a C compiler
(but no C++) to which the freetype library has been ported. There's
an old port of TeX that doesn't work too well anymore, so there's been
some talk about porting a modern TeX. (LuaTeX requires C++ for the
PDF library it uses, so that's out for now.)
--Joel
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