Tools for building TeX and friends from WEB or CWEB source code
Introduction Over the last couple of evenings I’ve been looking at the C code for TeX generated by the tangle and Web2C conversion process. By default, the Web2C conversion process generates C source code which is almost completely devoid of…
Introduction This post is, once again, an aide-mémoire to record a work-in-progress: porting the tools that convert Knuth’s original Pascal-based WEB source to C – to create a native build of Web2C.exe, fixwrites.exe and other tools using Microsoft’s Visual Studio…
Introduction Before continuing, I should say that this post is a sort of aide-mémoire for myself but I hope it is useful to others as well. Anyone who has looked into building TeX from the WEB source code soon finds…