> I have installed the true type fonts in: > > c:\Program Files\CommonFiles\Efl\share\fonts > (Efl is the name of the package). Any particular reason why you don't install them into Windows itself? Are they strictly for use by Efl only from licensing or usefulness point of view, and are there so many of them that having them visible in the normal font selection of Windows apps would just cause lots of clutter? Presumably the Efl code really *does* require fontconfig, either by using it directly or by using the pangoft2 library? > Of course, if I just do that, You didn't tell where you installed fontconfig, and whether you used a prebuilt package like mine at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/fontconfig-2.4.2-tml-20071015.zip or from somewhere else, or whether you compiled fontconfig yourself? > fontconfig can not find the fonts and I get > the error: > > Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file Well, that message doesn't say that it can't find the fonts, it says that it can't find the fonts.conf file. (But the end result of course is that no fonts are found either, as it is the fonts.conf file which tells where to look for fonts...) > What I would like to know is how I can correctly set fontconfig on > Windows. I would unzip the above zip file (or a newer version if/when one is available) into the c:\Program Files\CommonFiles\Efl folder, and not move the files thus unzipped around after that. Then in c:\Program Files\CommonFiles\Efl\etc\fonts\fonts.conf I would replace "<dir>~/.fonts</dir>" with "<dir>c:/program files/common files/efl/share/fonts</dir>. (Hmm, I hope it works to have spaces in there...) > I know that if I install gtk runtime (for gimp) or Xchat2 on > Windows (well, xchat uses gtk but install fontconfig in its own > directory), fontconfig can detect the font files. With "the" font files, do you mean the ones installed in the Windows font folder, or the ones you installed into Efl\share\fonts ? (Anyway, I wonder why Xchat2 comes bundled with fontconfig, does it really need it? GIMP does, but not GTK+ applications in general.) > I know that I can use the environment variables Sorry, I have never played with those, can't say anything about them. > Can someone tell what I have to do during the installation of that library > to set up correctly fontconfig ? fontconfig as a concept is rather foreign to Windows, so using it on Windows is not really "correct" (in a more philosophical sense)... One should use fontconfig on Windows only if the code absolutely requires fontconfig. At least, that's what Owen always says unless I'm mistaken. But anyway, hopefully the above should give you some help. The key point is that the location of the default fonts.conf file is constructed from the location of the fontconfig DLL. The DLlMain() function in the DLL asks the system where it is located. The DLL should be in "someprefix\bin" (or "someprefix\lib", although that is not really recommended), and the fonts.conf file then in "someprefix\etc\fonts". If the DLL is in a folder whose last component isn't "bin" or "lib", then the fonts.conf file should be in "etc\fonts" directly under that folder. This is the same logic that GTK+ and all other related stuff I have ported to Windows use to find its installation location at run time. As far as I know it works fine, although in fontconfig's case the code only uses the ANSI variants of the APIs so it won't work if pathnames with characters not in the system codepage are involved. --tml _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
