Keith Packard wrote: > Around 11 o'clock on Apr 23, "Andrew Pendleton" wrote: > > >>Does fontconfig compile under mingw? > > > Never tested that. fontconfig uses automake and libtool for compiling, so > perhaps the problem is in one of those two tools. He probably needs to compile inside cygwin and pass the -mno-cygwin cflag during the configuration process so that libtool/gcc will produce mingw binaries. > What is mingw, anyway? It's a set of development tools which allow you to compile unix-style code into MFC/Win32 native binaries&libraries without a posix/syscall emulation layer (Cygwin). However, to my knowledge there is no native X11 support in Windows (XonX style), so I really fail to see the point in building fontconfig for it. The person would be best advised to use the existing TT font rendering API if he/she needs truetype support in their application. [Of course, I could be wrong and someone has figured out a use for a native Win32 api version of fontconfig...] OTOH, Alan Hourhaine has fixed up things for the Cygwin/XFree86 project so that Xft2 & Fontconfig will be in 4.3.x when it is released. This is still a WIP, so there aren't any releases yet, AFAIK. Cheers, Nicholas
