[OS X TeX] [OT] pdftk on OS X

[Martin Costabel]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 24.12.2008 um 18:01 schrieb Martin Costabel:
> 
>> The huge building block for pdftk is gcc42, which is needed for the 
>> java compiler.
> 
> 
> Why is javac inappropriate?

There are several reasons: First, the command line flags of javac and of 
gcj have not much in common. Try to translate a command line like

/sw/lib/gcc4.2/bin/gcj  --encoding=UTF-8 
-I"/sw/src/fink.build/pdftk-1.12-3/pdftk-1.12/java_libs" -c MD5.java -o 
MD5.o

into javac. Good luck. It may be possible, but then you would have to 
rewrite the whole build process of pdftk, which is based on gcj.

Second, pdftk is a mixture of C++ and java code. I don't know if Apple 
supplies the necessary bindings. Try to find the equivalent of a C/C++ 
code line

#include <java/lang/System.h>

for Apple's C++ compiler. It may be possible, but then you would have to 
rewrite much of the source code of pdftk.

-- 
Martin