I have recently had a fair amount of success (e.g., ephcom-2.0.2) testing software packages I have developed on Linux to make sure they also work on the MinGW/MSYS/Wine Windows platform. However, I have run into a snag with such a Wine (1.3.26) build test for libLASi. That library depends on the pango/cairo stack of libraries including font-config and builds without obvious issues under Wine using the all-in-one Windows package http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.1-20101227_win32.zip for GTK+ 2.22.1 recommended at http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php. The fontconfig version in that bundle is "fontconfig version 2.8.0" according to "fc-list --version". However, the issue is libLASi test applications built by the same build under Wine fail to run under Wine because they cannot find any TrueType fonts. That font finding problem appears to be confirmed by fc-list which produces absolutely empty results from wine. So I ran fc-cache --really-force --verbose z:/usr/share/fonts from the Wine (SYS-bash) environment since /usr/share/fonts (the Linux equivalent of that Wine directory) are where many TrueType fonts are located on my system. That gave very promising results with many fonts found and cached in the Wine C:/users/wine/Temp/fontconfig/cache directory. BUT fc-list continues to give completely empty results and the libLASi test applications continue to fail because no fonts are found. Anybody here have a clue why fc-list gives empty results under these circumstances where fc-cache appears to be succeeding? My Linux system is 64-bit while the wine system is 32-bit (as is version of GTK+ I downloaded). I assumed since Debian stored the fonts in architecture-independent /usr/share/fonts that 64-bit versus 32-bit issues would not matter here, but is that assumption incorrect? Any advice as to the best way to access Linux-installed fonts from the Wine platform using the Windows version of fontconfig would be most appreciated. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
