[FriBidi] fribidi and meson

Dov Grobgeld dov.grobgeld at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 07:51:27 UTC 2018


In git master, there is no longer a glib dependency. I rewrote the two
c-based tests to remove all references to glib. I also changed the meson
and the autoconfig files and removed references to glib from them as well.

Regards,
Dov


On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:43 AM, John Emmas <john at creativepost.co.uk> wrote:

> On 11/03/2018 10:21, John Emmas wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes, the ones with glib dependencies are weird ('BidiTest.exe' and
>> 'BidiCharacterTest.exe').  The 32-bit versions get built okay with VS2005 -
>> but [...] for the 64-bit versions (with VS2015) the files "BidiTest.txt"
>> and "BidiCharacterTest.txt" do get generated - but the corresponding exe's
>> don't get built at all...
>>
>>
> Something occurred to me this morning...
>
> AFAIK those particular exe's are the only two which require Glib. My copy
> of VS2015 is running on a different machine from VS2005.
>
> So is it possible that for the VS2015 build, the Glib dependency simply
> isn't getting found (and that's why those two particular exe's get skipped?)
>
> If so, how does Glib get detected?  Does meson try to locate the Glib
> libraries?  Or the header files maybe?  Or both?
>
> (or do I need to be asking this question on a Meson forum..?)
>
>
> John
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