Hi, I''m trying to port Fontconfig to an embedded system (the Wii via DevkitPro). I am having lots of difficulty porting libxml2, so I did searching and found that Fontconfig used to use Expat. According to what I could find by searching through the mailing list and stuff and "./configure --help", Expat should still be supported. I tried adding the option --disable-libxml2 (as described in the configure help) but configure still stops after looking for libxml2 saying it wasn''t found. So does anyone know if Expat is still supported? Or know how hard it would be to reenable it? Or have any other suggestions as to what I could do? My ultimate goal would be to port Cairo to the Wii with FreeType support (hence requiring FontConfig). Thanks, Matt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20090111/4b9c3adb/attachment.html
Hi, I''m trying to port Fontconfig to an embedded system (the Wii via DevkitPro). I am having lots of difficulty porting libxml2, so I did searching and found that Fontconfig used to use Expat. According to what I could find by searching through the mailing list and stuff and "./configure --help", Expat should still be supported. I tried adding the option --disable-libxml2 (as described in the configure help) but configure still stops after looking for libxml2 saying it wasn''t found. So does anyone know if Expat is still supported? Or know how hard it would be to reenable it? Or have any other suggestions as to what I could do? My ultimate goal would be to port Cairo to the Wii with FreeType support (hence requiring FontConfig). Thanks, Matt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20090113/b4c715b4/attachment.html
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 09:32 -0500, Matt Cupp wrote:> > So does anyone know if Expat is still supported? Or know how hard it > would be to reenable it? Or have any other suggestions as to what I > could do? My ultimate goal would be to port Cairo to the Wii with > FreeType support (hence requiring FontConfig).No, expat isn''t supported. I originally thought it would be fairly easy to switch between libxml and expat, and was encouraged to use libxml because many other applications were using that, and having two xml parsing libraries in core at once doesn''t make a lot of sense. It would be great if you wanted to try and figure out how to make expat work again; fontconfig doesn''t have any complicated demands on an XML parser. -- keith.packard at intel.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20090113/7dd66709/attachment.pgp
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:55:16 -0800 Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 09:32 -0500, Matt Cupp wrote: > > > > > So does anyone know if Expat is still supported? Or know how hard it > > would be to reenable it? Or have any other suggestions as to what I > > could do? My ultimate goal would be to port Cairo to the Wii with > > FreeType support (hence requiring FontConfig). > > No, expat isn''t supported. I originally thought it would be fairly easy > to switch between libxml and expat, and was encouraged to use libxml > because many other applications were using that, and having two xml > parsing libraries in core at once doesn''t make a lot of sense. > > It would be great if you wanted to try and figure out how to make expat > work again; fontconfig doesn''t have any complicated demands on an XML > parser.Hello. Is this still true? The other distros I''ve looked at (Fedora, Debian, SuSE) link against expat and I have no problem building and using fontconfig on a system without libxml2 installed. If libxml2 is the preferred XML library why is it described as a fallback in the configure message and why aren''t other distros using it? Thanks, -- fonts, toolchain, Character is what you are in the dark. gcc-porting, wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20090901/9ec7bbdd/attachment.pgp