[HarfBuzz] Windows build of harfbuzz with nmake

[John Emmas]

On 13/06/2016 10:09, Juha Martikainen wrote:
>
> I had a second build attempt where I made my own vcxproj file. There I 
> get the following kind of errors:
>
> 1>..\..\src\hb-directwrite.cc(246): error C2039: 'directwrite' : is 
> not a member of 'hb_shaper_data_t'
> 1>..\..\src\hb-directwrite.cc(257): error C3861: 
> 'hb_directwrite_shaper_face_data_ensure': identifier not found
>

Hi Juha, I think you accidentally posted off-list.

You're right about the above and it's hugely frustrating.  I build with 
MSVC-8 and I had to comment out the whole of 'hb-directwrite.cc' because 
I couldn't make it compile.  I added a note to say that I hoped it might 
build with some future version of MSVC but from what you're saying, it 
still won't compile.

Once again though...  commenting out the whole of 'hb-directwrite.cc' 
didn't seem to cause any problems.  I think it's a (comparatively) 
recent file so maybe its functionality isn't used very much as yet?  The 
file's author seems to be Ebrahim Byagowi. He needs to be made aware 
that it's unbuildable with MSVC.

John