Fontconfig - Mar 2010 - A developer's question

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Hi, my name is Christopher and a have a sort of hit and run question for
the fontconfig e-mail list. I''ve written a small game in C++, and
I''m
trying to compile together a fairly portable binary, linking in
libraries statically whenever possible. I''m using the clanlib game
engine, which depends on libfreetype and libfontconfig. I wanted to
compile these libraries in statically also, but I kind of got the
impression from the libfontconfig home page that it wouldn''t make much
sense to compile libfontconfig in statically because the user would need
to install it on his own anyway, at least in order to get the /etc
config files setup.

Anyway, since I''m a little vague on how libfreetype and libfontconfig
work, and I would appreciate it if anyone could provide any helpful
perspective here.

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On 03/16/2010 07:01 AM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hi, my name is Christopher and a have a sort of hit and run question for
> the fontconfig e-mail list. I''ve written a small game in C++, and
I''m
> trying to compile together a fairly portable binary, linking in
> libraries statically whenever possible. I''m using the clanlib game
> engine, which depends on libfreetype and libfontconfig. I wanted to
> compile these libraries in statically also, but I kind of got the
> impression from the libfontconfig home page that it wouldn''t make
much
> sense to compile libfontconfig in statically because the user would need
> to install it on his own anyway, at least in order to get the /etc
> config files setup.
The easiest way would be to use the env var FONTCONFIG_FILE to point it to
your custom root config file.  And you should tailor your config files to use
alternate font and cache directories instead of the defaults.  You should in
fact be able to get away with a two line config file pointing to your root
font dir and tmp cache dir only.

behdad