From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Apr 28 2002 - 23:21:01 EDT
HI Joaquin,
These patches look like they should go to the Pango maintainer.
The first Pango patches from abiword :-)
Cheers
Martin
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
> I've been playing a bit with pango, using the windows native backend.
>
> First, make the whole thing compile and run was a pain. Maybe it's just me
> been a unix guy, but it took me several hours to get the whole thing running
> (and I was using precompiled packages for glib...)
>
> Basically, to compile pango we have 3 choices:
>
> 1) To use autoconf/automake. It seems that this option is only for brave
> souls. You need state-of-the-art/bleeding-edge versions of
> libtool/autoconf/autoconf & friends. It's the "supported" way to compile.
>
> 2) To use nmake makefiles. It's the second more or less "supported" way to
> compile.
>
> 3) To use make makefiles. The makefiles are obsolete. Tor (the guy that
> did the gtk+ port to win32, impressive work, btw) was using makefiles before
> he managed to get autostuff working in win32 (I think that he has patched
> almost all the auto* chain to make it work in windows).
>
> I wanted to take a look at pango without worring too much about the
> compilation process, so the most direct way seemed to be to use the nmake
> makefiles.
>
> One problem that I hit it that the nmake makefiles supposes that you're
> building everything (and that includes *EVERYTHING*) from source. To make
> the makefiles work, you will also need perl (and double check that your
> version prints the ends-of-line a la windows!). Ah, and the makefiles are
> not so "up to date" as the README files says... so I fixed the nmake
> makefiles to make them work here. If somebody is interested, ask for the
> makefiles and I will send them.
>
> So now I have a more or less working pango build (I've not yet managed to
> build the FT2 backend).
>
> The windows native backend seems to be in a more or less functional state.
> The only big problem that I've seen is that the size of the fonts was
> (*absolutely*) wrong. If you ask for a font size of 12, pango renders the
> font with a size of ~7.5 points.
>
> I've patched pango to fix this problem, so if you want to play with the
> windows backend apply the attached patch before you start the fun.
>
> And now, anybody wants to join me getting a bit of fun?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Joaquin Cuenca Abela
> cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr
>
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