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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:32:14 -0500
From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Organization: Spectrum Healthcare Services
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Subject: Re: pdftex (was Re: Tex)
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To my question of building pdftex with DJGPP, I've got two responses:

Eli Zaretskii wrote in the DJGPP list:
> 
> On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Weiqi Gao wrote:
> 
> > The pdftex part (2.), I haven't been able to set up.  The
> > pdftex source is available under the GPL, and is in a format that is
> > meant to be merged with the standard kpathsea and web2c sources (with
> > replacement Makefile.in and configure.in, etc.)  However, I can't do a
> > clean make yet under DJGPP.
> 
> This shouldn't be too hard.  Why don't you post the specific problems
> that you get when you try to compile PDFTeX, and see if someone here
> has any ideas how to overcome these problems?

Sebastian Rahtz wrote in the pdftex list:
> 
> Weiqi Gao wrote:
> 
> > 2.  I also downloaded the source of pdftex.  Since I'm using the DJGPP
> > port of TeX on Windows 95, the configure script isn't entirely useful. 
> > I'm just wondering if someone can give me some insight into how to
> > compile the sources by hand.
> 
> I'd say, don't even try at this stage; Fabrice uses Visual C++, and i think
> that doing it with djgpp is going to be non-trivial. depends how hard
> you want to work...
> 
> Sebastian

I managed to conpile pdftex with DJGPP today.  I simply overlaid the
pdftex source with the DJGPP's version of web2c (webc70s.zip) and
kpathsea (kpse30s.zip), run the DJGPP specific configure script
djgpp/config.bat, and then started to do "make pdftex".

I ran into several problems.  None of them are pdftex problems.  I have
encountered:
  1.  ac_include in Makefiles choking make.  (changed them to include)
  2.  @top_srcdir@, @srcdir@, etc. not substituted in the make/*.make
scripts.  (changed them all to either . or .., knowing this will cause
problems later)
  3.  make would error out because it cannot find a certain file. 
(moved files around so that the wrong Makefile can find them)

The result looks like this (probably not optimized for size yet):

  -rwxr-xr-x   1 weiqi    dos          2048 Sep 15 21:31 pdfamstex.exe*
  -rwxr-xr-x   1 weiqi    dos          2048 Sep 15 21:31 pdflatex.exe*
  -rwxr-xr-x   1 weiqi    dos        678773 Sep 15 21:29 pdftex.exe*

compared with the binary distribution's:

  -rwxr-xr-x   1 weiqi    dos        470016 May 28 16:08 pdfamstex.exe*
  -rwxr-xr-x   1 weiqi    dos        470016 May 28 16:08 pdflatex.exe*
  -rwxr-xr-x   1 weiqi    dos        470016 May 28 16:08 pdftex.exe*

The DJGPP binaries seems to run just fine.

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Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com