[XeTeX] Porting XeTeX

[jeremiah johnson]

I'm not terribly knowledgeable in the ways of C/C++ compilation, but I would
imagine that you could cross-compile to Plan 9 from a platform that can
compile XeTeX.

Is it terribly important that this run on Plan 9?  If not, I'd just run
XeTeX on a supported system.  It was only recently that XeTeX was made to
run on Windows, the most popular operating system on Earth, and it still
isn't really supported, to my knowledge.  Plan 9 support could be a ways
off.

jeremiah();

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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