Re: PangoXft and PangoFT2 patch from hell

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 19 Nov 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:

> 
> Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > 
> > > Alex Larsson writes:
> > >  > > What do you suggest 'for now'. I guess porting mini-xft is at least
> > >  > > some hours of work. A _really_ short look at the code gave me the
> > >  > > impression, that it is tightly bound to the *ix way of doing things.
> > > 
> > > Well, just making it build (with gcc; MSVC will need some #ifdef
> > > HAVE_UNISTD_H etc) was not that hard. Whether it actually does
> > > anything sensible is another matter. Anybody have a simple (but not
> > > too simple) working test program for pangoft2? (I don't think the old
> > > viewer-ft2.c in Pango's examples compiles any longer?) What should an
> > > XftConfig file look like? (Oh well, that can probably be found on the
> > > web.)
> > 
> > I normally try it with libgnomecanvas. But I don't know if you want to 
> > build that on win32.
> >  
> > Perhaps we should restore viewer-ft2.c.
> 
> viewer-ft2.c is fundementally unfixable because it depends on 
> having copy of GTK+ that you can link to the same GLib as
> Pango but that doesn't require Pango.

It could use Xlib directly. Not very nice, but certainly possible.

/ Alex