Hans Breuer writes: > BTW: just tried to compile fontconfig with msvc. It does _not_ > build out of the box. Did anybody claim it would? Builds fine with gcc (mingw), but it has more POSIX emulation stuff bundled than MSVC. > And although it certainly can be ported Yeah, wasn't annything particularily difficult, just needed to add some #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H, point it to the dirent emulation package, write up a nmake makefile for the src directory, use a prebuilt config.h. Still, in order to be able to build totally from scratch with MSVC, would need write nmake makefiles for the other directories. Shall I send you what I have, do you want to continue? --tml