Prerequisites & Building

Prerequisites

Before building TMT, ensure the following are available on your system:

• Rust toolchain (Edition 2024). Install via rustup.rs.
• C libraries (PDF support only): freetype and libpdfium must be available in your system path or linker search path.

Building

Standard Build

The default build enables support for DOCX, CSV, and TSV translation:

cargo build --release

The compiled binary will be at target/release/tmt.

Build with PDF Support

PDF support is gated behind an optional feature flag because it depends on the external C libraries pdfium-render and freetype:

cargo build --release --features pdf

Note: Without the pdf feature, attempting to translate a .pdf file will produce an error at runtime.

Quick Smoke Test

After building, verify the binary works:

./target/release/tmt --help

Global Constants

These constants are compiled into the binary and cannot be overridden at runtime: