From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 05:27:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87y32jqrf7.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <83o93iwwtn.fsf@gnu.org> <87a7ezn7uj.fsf@russet.org.uk> <837ea3vmrv.fsf@gnu.org> <875zpnn6v6.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87imtnsp0c.fsf@telefonica.net> <831s0bv186.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="27443"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 03 05:28:36 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hXdeF-000706-Vw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 05:28:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXdeD-0005ym-Qf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jun 2019 23:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50751) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXdda-0005yf-04 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jun 2019 23:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXddZ-0005bY-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jun 2019 23:27:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=40738 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXddY-0005aC-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jun 2019 23:27:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hXddW-0006Gj-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 05:27:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:cwBnBErqPezGf1FDVh8fNYM24uE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:237206 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Looking at their respective PKGBUILDs, it seems that there is a cyclic >> dependency among harfbuzz and freetype > > This circular dependency is a known issue; Freetype needs to be > rebuilt once HarfBuzz is built and installed, if you need Freetype as > a separate library, to be called directly. We don't need to call > Freetype directly from Emacs on Windows, so this isn't an issue for > Emacs on Windows. > >> which brings in libpng and bzip2. > > libpng and bzip2 are dependencies of Freetype regardless of HarfBuzz, > AFAIK. Thanks. >> HarfBuzz itself also depends on glib2. > > That's an optional dependency that Emacs doesn't need at all, but > MSYS2 folks decided to include it. In general, Glib is needed by > HarfBuzz only in order to run its test suite. I looked at Debian and Arch Linux package descpriptions and it seems that glib2 is a runtime dependency for providing GObject bindings. HarfBuzz can be compiled without glib2, but then those bindings are not available.