Hi,
sorry for replying to myself. As Deepanshu reminded me, Adrien already
said something regarding compiling harfbuzz with GCC2 [1].
It just occurred to me that harfbuzz has a C calling interface. As such,
it should be possible to use the same library binary, compiled with
GCC5, for both Haiku x86 and x86_gcc2 architectures. If it cannot be
done with a single binary, then there can be a copy in both architecture
locations for all I care.
Is there anything wrong with this idea?
I am still wondering about the harfbuzz dependencies however, i.e. why
they are on offer in the first place.
Best regards,
-Stephan
[1] https://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-gsoc/Compiling-HarfbuzzFreetype
Am 12.06.2017 um 13:02 schrieb Stephan Aßmus:
Hi all,
I've noticed that the harfbuzz package is not available for x86_gcc2. I looked into the Haikuports recipe and the patchset. This question is probably mostly for Korli: What are the prospects of getting harfbuzz compiled for GCC2? Have you looked into it much?
Also, why the dependency to graphite2? I got the impression that graphite2 provides an alternative shaper? And what about the glib support?
If we want text shaping support in app_server, we would need a GCC2 build, and since harfbuzz would become a build requirement for Haiku, my impression is it should be a minimal version tied in only with ICU and freetype which are already a requirement.
Opinions, ideas? :-)
Best regards,
-Stephan
