[cairo] Reg. Porting Cairo Font Support over T-Environment

[Mukul Sharma]

Dear members,

I am currently working over porting cairo onto T-Environment and
facing some difficulties related to font rendering. I have previously
ported the cairo code onto the T-environment and the drawing of
figures and shapes is working for me. The only thing left is the font
rendering.

My approach towards making fonts work has been --- I have compiled
cairo along with freetype source and fontconfig source as a single
executable. The executable thus created is working fine but not
rendering any text onto the final image (I am using the image surface
backend for rendering). Firstly, I need to ask, whether this approach
of mine is correct or not.
And if it is correct, then can anybody tell me, if there should be
anything that I must take care of, which might cause a possible
problem.

Secondly, I read about the toy font support in cairo. My requirement
as of now is simply to be able to dump out text onto the screen.
Therefore, only a single font support will be good enough for me. My
question is, that is it possible, that I could use the toy font
support, to render fonts without using fontconfig or freetype. If it
is possible, then can somebody please guide me, about what things I
should concentrate on.

I have ported all the other functionalities of cairo onto the
T-Environ successfully, with the help of the members in the past. I
thank you all a lot for that, and expect some guidance with the
current problem of mine.

-- 
Thanks and Regards,

Er. Mukul Sharma
Research Intern
Centre for High Performance Embedded Systems, NTU, Singapore

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