<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hello,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks a looooot for your inputs. I tried this on Solaris and it worked!!!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Now I am trying the same on linux. I could do the configuration of fontconfig successfully. But to my bad luck, I am getting below error during compilation.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> make[2]: Entering directory `/LinuxDisk/usr/home/rkamoji/TEMP/fc_linux/fc-lang'<o:p></o:p> source='../../fontconfig-2.2.96/fc-lang/fc-lang.c' object='fc-lang.o' libtool=no \<o:p></o:p> depfile='.deps/fc-lang.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/fc-lang.TPo' \<o:p></o:p> depmode=gcc /bin/sh ../../fontconfig-2.2.96/depcomp \<o:p></o:p> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -<st1:place w:st="on">I.</st1:place> -I../../fontconfig-2.2.96/fc-lang -I.. -I../../fontconfig-2.2.96/src -I../../fontconfig-2.2.96 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes     -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations     -Wnested-externs -fno-strict-aliasing    -g -O2 -c `test -f '../../fontconfig-2.2.96/fc-lang/fc-lang.c' || echo '../../fontconfig-2.2.96/fc-lang/'`../../fontconfig-2.2.96/fc-lang/fc-lang.c<o:p></o:p> In file included from ../../fontconfig-2.2.96/fontconfig/fcfreetype.h:27,<o:p></o:p>                  from ../../fontconfig-2.2.96/src/fcint.h:39,<o:p></o:p>                  from ../../fontconfig-2.2.96/fc-lang/fc-lang.c:25:<o:p></o:p> /usr/local/include/ft2build.h:56: freetype/config/ftheader.h: No such file or directory<o:p></o:p> In file included from ../../fontconfig-2.2.96/src/fcint.h:39,<o:p></o:p>                  from ../../fontconfig-2.2.96/fc-lang/fc-lang.c:25:<o:p></o:p> ../../fontconfig-2.2.96/fontconfig/fcfreetype.h:28: `#include' expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME><o:p></o:p> make[2]: *** [fc-lang.o] Error 1<o:p></o:p> make[2]: Leaving directory `/LinuxDisk/usr/home/rkamoji/TEMP/fc_linux/fc-lang'<o:p></o:p> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1<o:p></o:p> make[1]: Leaving directory `/LinuxDisk/usr/home/rkamoji/TEMP/fc_linux'<o:p></o:p> make: *** [all] Error 2<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Configuration of my linux system is as below:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> XFree86 : 4.5.0 (latest version).<o:p></o:p> OS: Redhat 7.1<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> When I installed XFree86 : 4.5.0, fontconfig, freetype and xft all were installed by XFree86 only. Where should I keep fontconfig source code? How can I make freetype and other required libs/includes available to fontconfig?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks for your valuable inputs.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks and Regards,<o:p></o:p> Rupa.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Lam [mailto:plam@MIT.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:17 AM To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Rupa Kamoji</st1:PersonName> Cc: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">fontconfig@lists.freedesktop.org</st1:PersonName> Subject: Re: [Fontconfig] RE: Specifying location of fontfiles in fonts.conf file. <o:p> </o:p> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Rupa Kamoji</st1:PersonName> wrote:<o:p></o:p> > Hello,<o:p></o:p> > <o:p></o:p> > Thanks for your reply. I need to ship the fontconfig library, fonts.conf<o:p></o:p> > file and font files with my application. I want to avoid the requirement<o:p></o:p> > of modification to any of the files by the recipient of my application.<o:p></o:p> > He sets an environment variable and uses this env variable to run my<o:p></o:p> > application. So I want to mention the location of font files in<o:p></o:p> > fonts.conf file using this env variable. So this way he will not have to<o:p></o:p> > do anything but at that same time he will be able to use fontcong for<o:p></o:p> > all text display in my application.<o:p></o:p> > <o:p></o:p> > Please help me in using this env variable in fonts.conf file to specify<o:p></o:p> > the location of font files.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The code does not presently support the use of arbitrary environment <o:p></o:p> variables and I'm not sure if there might be any security implications <o:p></o:p> from doing so.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> However, if you want your shipped copy of fontconfig to use an <o:p></o:p> environment variable, then you can write a quick and dirty hack to, for <o:p></o:p> instance, FcConfigAddDir.  Add something like the following lines:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p>       if (strcmp(d, "$CUSTOM_FONT_DIR") == 0)<o:p></o:p>             d = (FcChar8 *) getenv ("CUSTOM_FONT_DIR");<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I think that'll work for your case.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> pat<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>