[cairo] Request: Separate FreeType and Fontconfig

[Bobby Salazar]

What kind of synchronization issues are you talking about?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cairo at surith.net
> Sent: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:16:01 -0800
> To: cairo at cairographics.org
> Subject: Re: [cairo] Request: Separate FreeType and Fontconfig
> 
> David Turner's patches are here
> http://david.freetype.org/cairo/
> 
> I think there are some issues with synchronization when fontconfig is
> completely removed.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Bobby Salazar <bobby8934 at inbox.com>
> wrote:
>> 
>> I have no idea why these two things haven't been separated yet. After
>> all, it's really quite easy to do. I build Cairo on Windows and use
>> FreeType but have no need for fontconfig. So every time I download an
>> updated version of Cairo, I hack out the fontconfig stuff. It takes
>> about 10 minutes of time to go through and comment out every function
>> that uses fontconfig. It's as simple as that, just comment it out and
>> everything works flawlessly. I don't see why it hasn't been moved to a
>> separate file by now, with it's own cairo feature #define.
>> 
>> I would be willing to send a patch for this, but the impression I get
>> from this mailing list is that if the patch doesn't fix an urgent bug
>> (as opposed to adding useful new features), then it doesn't seem to get
>> much attention.
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: britten at caris.com
>>> Sent: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:21:39 -0400
>>> To: cairo at cairographics.org
>>> Subject: [cairo] Request: Separate FreeType and Fontconfig
>>> 
>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> 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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