Re: [ft-devel] build ttfautohint without freetype-config script

[Werner LEMBERG]

Buon giorno!


> The freetype-config script seems to be required in order to build
> ttfautohint.  The configure.ac errors if it cannot find one.
> However, building freetype library with cmake, or with nmake (visual
> studio), does not install that script to the prefix bin.

Indeed, I haven't considered that.

> If I understand well, that's simply a wrapper for pkg-config, or [a
> shell script] for systems that don't have pkg-config, to get the
> C preprocessor flags and libraries options to link with freetype.

Exactly.

> Would it be possible to modify the configure.ac so that if the
> freetype-config script is not found, or if it's set to some empty
> variable, then the user can provide custom FREETYE_CPPFLAGS and
> FREETYPE_LIBS variables?

Certainly.  Can you provide a patch?  It was just my laziness that no
such solution exists yet.

> Or another option would be to modify the freetype CMakeList.txt to
> also configure and install the freetype-config script.

This sounds like a useful idea.  However, I'm very weak with cmake –
this is essentially contributed stuff...

> That would allow me to use cmake at least for building freetype (and
> harfbuzz).  For ttfautohint itself, that's more complicated because
> of gnulib (I've asked on the cmake mailing list for help).

Yes.  gnulib is very tightly tied to both make and the GNU autotools.


    Werner