[HarfBuzz] Building from git on OS X with Homebrew

Rolf Langenhuijzen rolf.langenhuijzen at xs4all.nl
Mon Mar 24 14:06:23 PDT 2014


oh crap, in addition you would run "brew install freetype” again after all this (below) because of the chicken-and-egg problem Werner posted about before.

Rolf


On 24 Mar 2014, at 22:00, Rolf Langenhuijzen <rolf.langenhuijzen at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> You have to install one package at a time, and have to know the formula names (https://github.com/mbcoguno/homebrew-core/tree/master/Library/Formula)
> 
> So like James wrote (and first install Homebrew which depends on Xcode cmd line tools); I’d point to http://brew.sh for the basic information.
> Some have to do stuff after running “brew doctor”, but on a clean OS you’re normally fine.
> 
> So this list from James + a little more should be fine:
> 
> (p.s. when you "brew install <packagename>" it will install dependancies, .e.g. pixman is installed for cairo)
> 
> brew install ragel
> brew install automake
> brew install pkg-config
> brew install gtk-doc
> brew install libtool
> brew install libpng
> brew install freetype
> brew install fontconfig
> brew install cairo
> brew install icu4c
> 
> # Get harfbuzz
> git clone https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz.git
> cd harfbuzz
> ./autogen.sh
> make
> make install
> 
> I do want to test this somehow on a super clean OSX install, but don’t have one available right now.
> 
> There is no Homebrew formula yet for graphite2, so perhaps that should be noted in the instructions and ideally you want to use only formula’s to install things. That’s why a formula for the harfbuzz git version is preferred instead of git clone.. Something like brew install icu4c is optional...
> 
> Rolf
> 
> 
> On 24 Mar 2014, at 20:00, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 14-03-24 01:32 AM, James Clark wrote:
>>> I had another go at building harfbuzz from git on Mac OS X.  Using Homebrew,
>>> together with gtk-doc's now being optional, made it an order of magnitude
>>> easier than last time (glib and freetype are so that hb-shape builds):
>> 
>> A while ago I put MacPorts instructions on the harfbuzz homepage.  In particular:
>> 
>> To start from git, do this:
>> 
>> sudo port install autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig ragel gtk-doc
>> sudo port install freetype glib2 cairo
>> 
>> If you can tell me the brew equivalent of those I'll add to the page.  Like:
>> 
>> brew install autoconf automake libtool pkg-config ragel gtk-doc??
>> brew install freetype glib cairo?
>> 
>>>    # Install Xcode command line tools 
>>> 
>>>    xcode-select --install
>>>    # Install homebrew
>>>    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"
>>>    brew doctor
>>>    # Do what brew doctor says (I had to move some stuff in
>>>    /Library/Frameworks out of the way)
>>>    brew install ragel
>>>    brew install automake
>>>    brew install pkg-config 
>>> 
>>>    brew install glib
>>>    brew install libtool
>>>    brew install freetype
>>>    # Get harfbuzz
>>>    git clone https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz.git
>>>    cd harfbuzz
>>>    ./autogen.sh
>>>    make
>>> 
>>>    # Install Xcode command line tools
>>> 
>>> James
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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