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Inweb-bootstrap is a fork of [[https://github.com/ganelson/inweb][Inweb]] that aims to be [[https://bootstrappable.org/][bootstrappable]].
Rather than relying on a pre-generated inweb.c to build itself,
it will instead be properly built from the source code and an
understandable build system.

* Requirements

- noweb (noweave, notangle and cpif)
- texlive-scheme-basic (pdflatex)

* Installation

autoreconf -vif
./configure && make && make check && make install

* How It Works

Inweb is written in its own literate programming(LP) markup syntax and C dialect.
The markup syntax is 1:1 with noweb's syntax excluding the fancy features.

The InC dialect is very similiar to C++, but has a lot of syntactic sugar
for declarations and importing headers.

Inweb-bootstrap will use noweb as the LP markup syntax and C++ as the source code
programming language since it requires the least amount of work.

* Contact

Patches that help with bootstrapping Inweb are greatly appreciated,
especially with making the source code valid C++.
The patches can be sent to Inweb-bootstrap's maintainer.

* Inweb & Inweb-bootstrap

Once Inweb-bootstrap is complete, hopefully the upstream Inweb project
will use it as the official way to build Inweb.