On 2017-10-19 08:33+0100 p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com wrote:
Sent from my Windows 10 phone
From: Alan W. Irwin
Sent: 19 October 2017 03:01
To: Frédéric
Cc: plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net
what do you mean by "set up fontconf"? isn't fontconfig just for
POSIX?
No. For example, the Windows version of GTK+ depends on fontconfig.
We have had this discussion before. It is practically impossible for a mere
mortal to build the gtk stack on Windows. I have tried and failed more than
once. Gimp uses it, so it must be possible, but I have no idea how. Maybe using
mingw?
For your information, there is at least two well-known native Windows
binary downloads for fontconfig, and also a variant
of fontconfig that works on Windows with the aid of the cygwin dll.
1. The GTK+ developers themselves produce a binary version of the
fontconfig package as part of their set of GTK+ packages for Windows.
That used to be the best source of binary packages for all GTK+
components, but I feel it has been superseded now by the next choice.
2. The MinGW-w64/MSYS2 distribution provides a binary package for
fontconfig. Also, apparently anybody that has installed
MinGW-w64/MSYS2 can rebuild any of its packages (presumably including
fontconfig and the rest of the GTK+ stack) from source as well with no
muss/no fuss. So my conclusion is that MinGW-w64/MSYS is Windows
users' best source of free software libraries right now, and I suggest
you would want to look into that possibility further rather than
attempting the difficult task of trying to build complex sets of free
software libraries such as GTK+ yourself from scratch.
3. Cygwin also provides binary packages for fontconfig, the rest of
the GTK+ stack, and many other free software libraries, but all those
free software libraries depend on the cygwin dll in order to work on
Windows so I am not as keen on the Cygwin distribution of free
software as I am on MinGW-w64/MSYS distribution of free software.
Alan
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and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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