Op dinsdag 27-01-2009 om 17:18 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Farkas Levente: > Erik van Pienbroek wrote: > > As with cairo, fontconfig/freetype is also an optional dependancy for > > Pango > > does this means both fontconfig/freetype are usefulness in mingw32? >
As far as I can tell, fontconfig and freetype were used at the time when there was no native Win32 font support in Pango yet. Cairo wasn't born yet at that time. A lot has changed in the last few years regarding Win32 support and I think fontconfig and freetype are kinda obsolete for Win32 environments right now. At http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html I saw the following comment about fontconfig and freetype: ----- About freetype This is used by GIMP and by Pango's pangoft2 library. For just GTK+ applications you will not need it. About fontconfig Fontconfig is used by the FreeType2 backend in Pango (pangoft2) and by GIMP. Contrary to what many seem to think, fontconfig is in no way dependent on X11, so it does make some sense to use it on Windows. GTK+ does not use pangoft2, so you probably will not need this unless for GIMP. This is a slightly fixed version of fontconfig 2.4.2 from the date indicated. ----- So there are no real users of fontconfig and freetype on Win32 except for GIMP. I searched for more information about this and stumbled upon http://freetype.gimp.org/ This website has the following note: ----- The FreeType Plug-In is not being developed further, nor is it actively maintained. We believe that the GIMP text tool has become sufficiently good so that there's not any longer a need for this plug-in. ----- I think it is safe to forget about fontconfig and freetype on Win32 and stick with the native font implementations of Cairo and Pango. Regards, Erik van Pienbroek _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
