[Fontconfig] how to read config file from current dir (relative to a binary using the lib)

Akira TAGOH akira at tagoh.org
Mon Aug 27 22:13:00 PDT 2012


On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Helmut Tessarek <ml at evermeet.cx> wrote:
> Well, ffmpeg calls the fontconfig functions so it has the same environment.
>
> Even, if a sub-process was spawned or a thread created it would still have the
> same environment. But this is not the case. FFmpeg is just calling fontconfig
> functions. Thus setting an env var in ffmpeg should get picked up by the
> fontconfig lib. And this is exactly my point. I have no idea why it does not
> get picked up.

Other than that, those setenv thing has to be called before FcInit().
if it's written in C++ say and FcInit() is called in any constructors,
it may not work as expected unless you are sure you did it before
calling FcInit().

-- 
Akira TAGOH


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