[HarfBuzz] Compiling harfbuzz-ng under Mac OS 10.6

[Deron Kazmaier]

Thanks,

Neither are normally available on the platforms I wish to use this on. 
Seems ironic that I need ICU (which has shaping) to get Harfbuzz to 
shape :-)

What is considered more advanced?

Deron



On 1/9/11 8:04 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> In general you need to provide harfbuzz with a set of Unicode Character
> Database implementation.  Both the glib and ICU code you see in there do that.
>   Lacking those, you must find another way to get access to that data.  Without
> it, basic shaping works, but more advanced features fail.
>
> behdad
>
> On 01/08/11 17:06, Deron Kazmaier wrote:
>> Well, I got this to compile by simply compiling all the .c and .cc files
>> except the ICU and glib files. From what I can tell, these two are
>> conditional dependencies. Since glib is not found, it complains (several
>> times) on each file that the library won't be thread safe. I can live
>> with that right now :-) What other disadvantages to not having ICU or
>> glib? Looks like no memory mapped without glib?
>>
>> So unless I can help improve the autoconf tools by testing/reporting
>> issues I am having, I'm going to try and write some test code and digest
>> the API. Is pango's basic-fc.c still the best (only?) "documentation" in
>> this, short of the actual code itself?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Deron
>>
>>
>> On 1/8/11 11:14 AM, suzuki toshiya wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Yet I've not checked in detail, but I could reproduce Deron's error
>>> on Mac OS X 10.6, when I use autotools shipped by Apple. But when
>>> I use autotools installed by myself, I could generate configure
>>> successfully (see attached configure). I guess the autotools shipped
>>> by Apple might be too old to generate configure for harfbuzz-ng,
>>> so, could you try newer (especially autoconf) autotools?
>>>
>>> Apple: automake-1.10, autoconf-2.61, GNU libtool-2.2.4
>>> mine: automake-1.10.1, autoconf-2.63, GNU libtool-2.2.7a
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> mpsuzuki
>>>
>>> Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
>>>> Deron Kazmaier schreef op vr 07-01-2011 om 20:57 [-0700]:
>>>>> configure.ac:32: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_PROG
>>>>>         If this token and others are legitimate, please use
>>>>> m4_pattern_allow.
>>>>>         See the Autoconf documentation.
>>>>> configure.ac:36: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SUBST
>>>> You probably do not have autoconf, automake, pkg-config and the like
>>>> installed on your system.
>>>>
>>>>      — Wouter
>>>>
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