> The lack of C++ is going to hinder efforts to port these projects to > Plan 9 as-is; and these are significant efforts, not likely to be > duplicated by 9fans. (Perhaps the C++ library for PDF handling can be > rewritten in C, and then XeTeX & LuaTeX can be ported. But don't > expect the projects to use the rewrite in favor of the original > libraries.)
In the spirit of offering possible useful information while not being in the slightest bit interested in either porting a compiler or writing a converter at this time, I had the thought "why not write a C++ to C converter" like the old f2c I used back before g77/g95 came out. In anticipation of another flame drizzle, I am not reading these threads thinking that everyone is asking me to write these things for them, nor are my contributions necessarily asking others to develop such projects for me. When I have written my own posts it was intended to ask if anyone has done this, something similar, or even tried it. I like orienting myself a little before spending hundreds of hours -- only to find that I have reinvented the wheel. I poked around a little and found the following info: http://www.programmersheaven.com/mb/CandCPP/82212/82212/c++-to-c-converter/ http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/106880-there-any-up-date-cplusplus-c-converter.html apparently LLVM can be used to convert C++ to C; I had not know that: http://llvm.org/docs/FAQ.html#translatecxx I remember seeing someone interested in porting LLVM to Plan 9. Maybe that would help get you going. EBo --
