how to access opcodes without the csound engine ?

Hi there!

I had an idea the other night..."exporting" the precious csound opcode collection to other
software environments (max/msp in my case..).
I know there's the csound API and csound~ etc. but my idea is to use csound's opcodes
(primarily signal generators/modifiers) as standalone building blocks without the whole
orchestra/parser engine.

This shouldn't be too hard, should it (besides file i/o, inter-opcode communication, etc.)?

So here's my question:
Any tips on where to look in csound's source code on initializing opcodes, setting up
the CSOUND struct and getting the opcode's arguments?

...in the end, i imagine this as an automated wrapper spitting out ready-to-compile max/msp (pd)
externals :)

many thx in advance,
jan.