<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_REOPENED " title="REOPENED --- - Pathnames mangled under windows" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74559#c8">Comment # 8</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_REOPENED " title="REOPENED --- - Pathnames mangled under windows" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74559">bug 74559</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:tomsies@mighty.co.za" title="Dirk <tomsies@mighty.co.za>"> Dirk</a> <pre>OK, after a lot of investigation I see that the issue comes about because I have compiled the fontconfig library as static. The result of this is that all of the tricks used in fontconfig to determin the location of the default fonts.conf file are failing. Why; because DllMain in fcconfig.c will never execute with a staticly bound object. I make an assumption here that you guys will be in a better possition to answer: Namely that under windows a default fonts.conf is not required! Unless one chooses to explicitly override the fonts.conf with an application specific directory (via an environment variable), the default answer is going to be Windows Font Directory - with no fonts.conf required. Given this assumption, I submit some patches that should not impact in any way existing functionality, but adds a "catch all" fonts config of Windows Fonts Directory in the event that the existing code does not a good answer. Comments / evaluation / and etc. are welcome.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>