[cairo] Request: Separate FreeType and Fontconfig

[David Turner]

2009/3/6 Surith <cairo at surith.net>

> David Turner's patches are here
> http://david.freetype.org/cairo/


Note that these patches are 2 years old, I really don't think they'll apply
cleanly :-)


>
> I think there are some issues with synchronization when fontconfig is
> completely removed.
>

Which ones ?


>
> 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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