[HarfBuzz] XeTeX ICU and HarfBuzz in TeX Live

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 02:39:53PM +0100, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> 
> I still have problems compiling harfbuzz for mingw32, I get error messages
>   hb-open-type-private.hh: In function `const Type& OT::Null() [with Type = OT::Tag]':
>   hb-open-type-private.hh:579: error: call of overloaded `CastP(const char[5])' is ambiguous
>   hb-open-type-private.hh:55: note: candidates are: const Type* OT::CastP(const TObject*) [with Type = OT::Tag, TObject = char]
>   hb-open-type-private.hh:58: note:                 Type* OT::CastP(TObject*) [with Type = OT::Tag, TObject = const char]
> 
> It seems this is too complicated for gcc-3.4.  Any idea how to handle it?

I build cross compile HarfBuzz with mingw32 regularly, but probably
gcc-3.4 is too old.