Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint now has a GUI

[vernon adams]

As a kde user, the qt dependency is a non-issue for me :p
but... the build is reliant on qt4.8, which is still pre-release, so 
even i have to rebuild my whole qt libs to a non-stable state just for 
ttfautohint. Fun but overkill.
Using the qt library for ttfautohint is understandable, but i suggest it 
needs to be aimed to build out of the box on the main linux distros, at 
the very least.
Out of interest, do we know what the situation would be for someone 
porting ttfautohint to a cocoa etc build for osx? I know many would want 
that.

-vern


On 23/01/12 19:26, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > Oh oh. Looks like the times of "easy building" of ttfautohint are
> > gone :(
> >
> > It now requires a huge Qt library. I don't mind the ability to have
> > a GUI tool but to require Qt in order to build a simple commandline
> > app is somewhat of an overkill, especially if one wants to deploy
> > the tool on a GUI-less server. I'd greatly appreciate an ability to
> > build without the Qt dependancy.
> Will do.
>
> > Also the build process seems to have added complication. I used to
> > be able to build ttfautohint on Mac OS X as either a 32-bit Intel or
> > a 64-bit Intel commandline app. Now calling:
> >
> > $ ./configure --with-freetype-config=`pwd`/../out/bin/freetype-config
> > --prefix=`pwd`/../out \
> >              CFLAGS="-Os -arch i386"
> >
> > no longer is sufficient because the Qt flags seem to insist on
> > x86_64, and I don't yet know how to work around it.
> This is something I have to ask on a Qt forum.
>
> > But even if I decide to build x86_64, the new "bootstrap" stuff adds
> > even more complication to the mix.  I downloaded the most recent
> > libtool and installed it (bootstrap insisted on it), and now
> > bootstrap pulls some "gnulib" stuff, which then seems to conflict
> > with the headers that come pre-installed on my Mac OS X.  See below.
> This shouldn't happen.  Probably a bug.  I'll report it to the gnulib
> people.
>
> Thanks for testing!
>
>
>      Werner
>
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