Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:55:24 +0100 From: Vincent Torri <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ft-devel] freetype and harfbuzz
<snipped> > Actually, it is exactly the case a friend has, and I am asking this question for him because he is a bit busy. He is working on an installer for Windows. But it seems that the design of his installer makes difficult to resolve the circular dep with the 3 steps mentioned above. Why is it a problem - and also, how often do you need to build it? and which tool chain (msvc or mingw gcc) are you using? If you don't need to do it too often, you can just do it once and keep the binaries and be done with it. If you need to do it often - like I do with a patched freetype dll as part of another thing - you still don't need to do all three steps all the time. I have a static harfbuzz having dynamic dependency to unmod'ed freetype; and build modified freetype dll which is linked with the static harfbuzz. So the outcome is a modified dynamic freetype dll which have static harfbuzz built-in . I only do step 3, mostly. The ABI interface between harfbuzz and freetype don't really change all that much, if at all, between versions of either. _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
