We don’t currently use it anywhere. It was used briefly for the
hb-fc-list tool, but this tool have not been built since 2015:
commit cd042fc8c4
Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>
Date: Thu Jun 18 10:55:13 2015 -0700
[util] Disable hb-fc-list for now
Until I figure out what to do about the API, and finalize
the tool.
As a part of meson migration, this builds hb-shape dependencies
using meson subprojects and removes different unrelated mingw
files we've put on source root about things that aren't really our
concern. This also simplifies all the instructions we've put in
README.mingw.md and makes it easy to build the project on
distros that no mingw libraries (such i686-win32-{freetype,glib,...}
are packaged. The known catch is however lack of hb-view as its need
for build of cairo which apparently isn't that straightforward.
This adds support to the CMake build files to support building
HarfBuzz-GObject, which is actually a little bit complicated,
as we need to:
-Run glib-mkenums, which is a Python (for newer GLib/GObject) or PERL
(for older, pre 2.53.4, GLib/GObject) script. This matters more for
Visual Studio builds as shebang lines are not supported, so we need to
test-run it with PERL or Python to determine which is the correct
interpretor to use.
-Next, we need to replace strings in the sources that we obtain from
running glib-mkenums. So, the solution here is to use a small utility
CMake script for our purposes here, to maintain maximum compatibility.
-Ensure that things do work in the Visual Studio IDE builds.
This adds a set of NMake Makefiles that can be used to build HarfBuzz, from
the standard basic build building the minimal HarfBuzz DLL (consisting
of OpenType, fallback and Uniscribe support only), to a full fledged build
consisting of GLib and FreeType support, as well as building the utilities,
the test programs in src/ and test/api, and HarfBuzz-ICU and
HarfBuzz-GObject, and up to building the introspection files. This means a
flexible build mechanism is supported here, so anything that is supported
for a Windows build (code-wise), should all be supported by this build
system.
As in an earlier commit, the source listings are shared with the autotools
builds with the various Makefile.sources in src/, src/hb-ucdn and util/, and
this set of NMake Makefiles will transform these lists into the form they
want.
In the current form, all the test programs in test/api pass, and this has
been checked successfully with 'make -j8 distcheck'.
Initial setup of gtk-doc. Straight forward setup following the gtk-doc
instructions. Ignore some troublesome types in src/hb-gobject.h. To
build use "./autogen.sh --enable-gtk-doc" then "make". Docs are in
harfbuzz/docs/reference/html/index.html.
I typically don't like including generating files in tree. But like to
make an exception for this, since this forms the canonical list of
options one would need to go through when building with alternative
build systems.
