[HarfBuzz] Building and testing HarfBuzz 2.3.0 on MinGW

Nathan Willis nwillis at glyphography.com
Mon Feb 4 12:28:02 UTC 2019


Hi Eli,

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 5:35 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:

>
> 1) It would be good to have some guidance in some README or in the
> HTML docs regarding the optional dependencies and configuration
> options, and their significance.  For example, it turns out Glib is
> needed to run a large portion of the test suite, something that wasn't
> clear (I initially concluded that I didn't need Glib at all).  Also,
> hb-shape is not built if Glib isn't available.  Similarly, hb-view is
> not build unless both Cairo and cairo-ft are available.
>
>
I added https://harfbuzz.github.io/building.html#configuration a few weeks
ago; would you mind elaborating on what is missing there from your POV?

And thanks for the note about hb-view and hb-shape; that is a wise addition.
Nate
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