From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10399: [PATCH] Document win32 font backends Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:22:51 +0200 Message-ID: <83ty4hrnn8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <24726464e3220fa8654e52357dfd56ab2d5bdb43.1325166907.git.dancol@dancol.org> <83pqf7uxhp.fsf@gnu.org> <4EFCA060.9000002@dancol.org> <83vcoxrouh.fsf@gnu.org> <4EFEEC4A.2010502@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325330651 27308 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2011 11:24:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, 10399@debbugs.gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 31 12:24:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rgx2k-0003g7-Id for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:24:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32952 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rgx2j-0005aN-VM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:24:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rgx2g-0005Zw-CX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:24:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rgx2f-0006L9-79 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:24:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:59684) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rgx2f-0006L5-4O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:24:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rgx5Z-0004RT-Qk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:27:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:27:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10399 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 10399-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10399.132533080017048 (code B ref 10399); Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:27:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10399) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Dec 2011 11:26:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rgx5D-0004Qu-Uo for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:26:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rgx5A-0004Ql-2p for 10399@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:26:37 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LX200I00E8MYH00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 10399@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:22:52 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.18.76]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LX200I2UFM0YQ40@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:22:49 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4EFEEC4A.2010502@dancol.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:27:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:55330 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:04:42 -0800 > From: Daniel Colascione > CC: lekktu@gmail.com, 10399@debbugs.gnu.org > > The C compatibility issue arises from a problem with the header for > the COM interface produced by the IDL compiler (probably, nobody tried > to actually use DirectWrite from C before shipping.) This problem > doesn't prevent our using DirectWrite from C: as the MSDN comment > indicates, the declarations just need to be extracted and rephrased as > standard C. > > > Also, I see no dwrite.h header in the MinGW runtime and w32api > > distributions, and no lib*.a import libraries for dwrite.dll. Am I > > missing something? > > No. Either these packages would need to be updated to include > DirectWrite or we'd need to just include declarations for the > appropriate functions and interfaces ourselves. If a MinGW build of Emacs can use DirectWrite, and if there will be no copyright issues with providing the missing headers and interface libraries, then feel free to work on adding DirectWrite support to Emacs. Thanks in advance.