[cairo] Request: Separate FreeType and Fontconfig

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Ian Britten wrote:
> Hi all,
> Would it be possible to separate the existing FreeType/Fontconfig
> dependencies into two distinct dependencies, with the goal of being
> able to use FreeType with Cairo, but not requiring Fontconfig?

There has been patches submitted to the list to do that.  Though they are
outdated by now.  It's in my long term plan to fix this, but for now your best
bet is to get fontconfig working for you.

Cheers,
behdad


> I'm trying to help a coworker get Cairo built on Windows, and have
> run into this issue.  For our own usage, we definitely need FT, and
> thus have turned on CAIRO_HAS_FT_FONT.  Unfortunately, this also
> triggers a requirement of Fontconfig, for which we haven't figured
> out how to build it on Windows (If it even can be....)
> 
>  From some previous posts, it seems I'm not the only one that might be
> happy to see this:
> http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2008-November/015637.html
> http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2008-October/015466.html
> 
> In the meantime, can anyone provide any insight as to how to best
> proceed?
>    - Try to get Fontconfig built on Windows?  (If possible?)
>    - Hack apart every version of Cairo we download, to strip the
>      Fontconfig stuff out?
>    - Other?
> 
> Many thanks for any info, suggestions, etc!
> Ian
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