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Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows
From: |
Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: |
Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Jun 2019 05:27:40 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Looking at their respective PKGBUILDs, it seems that there is a cyclic
>> dependency among harfbuzz and freetype
>
> This circular dependency is a known issue; Freetype needs to be
> rebuilt once HarfBuzz is built and installed, if you need Freetype as
> a separate library, to be called directly. We don't need to call
> Freetype directly from Emacs on Windows, so this isn't an issue for
> Emacs on Windows.
>
>> which brings in libpng and bzip2.
>
> libpng and bzip2 are dependencies of Freetype regardless of HarfBuzz,
> AFAIK.
Thanks.
>> HarfBuzz itself also depends on glib2.
>
> That's an optional dependency that Emacs doesn't need at all, but
> MSYS2 folks decided to include it. In general, Glib is needed by
> HarfBuzz only in order to run its test suite.
I looked at Debian and Arch Linux package descpriptions and it seems
that glib2 is a runtime dependency for providing GObject bindings.
HarfBuzz can be compiled without glib2, but then those bindings are not
available.
- Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/01
- Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/01
- Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows, Phillip Lord, 2019/06/02
- Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/02
- Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows, Phillip Lord, 2019/06/02
- Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/06/02
- Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/02
- Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows,
Óscar Fuentes <=
- Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/02
- Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/06/03
- Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/03
Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows, Tak Kunihiro, 2019/06/04
Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows, Andy Moreton, 2019/06/07