[cairo] cairo without fontconfig revisited

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 07/20/2009 11:17 PM, cu wrote:
> I know this was discussed before, but I don't seem to find a definitive
> answer.
>
> In our application we have a few simple text output functions which
> essentially use one or two pre-defined fonts, not much configuration
> really. At the same time, fontconfig library has been a constant source
> of problems (literally 50% of initialization and runtime failures for
> our actual users were fontconfig related) and in any case provides no
> value to the product.
>
> Is there a way to build cairo without fontconfig and still get some font
> functionality (by providing specific font files or somehow loading them
> directly and giving cairo a pattern)?
>
> Any help would be appreciated!

Did you check the archives? :)
The developmental versions of cairo can be compiled without fontconfig. 
Should be quite easy to port to 1.8.x too.  In fact, maybe we should have done 
for 1.8.8.

Hope that helps,
behdad