Hello. There was some talks about libAss (in Aegisub) in Windows. One of Aegisub programmers said that he fail to build HarfBuzz on Windows. I found this message when I searched for "HarfBuzz Windows" in Google: >Hi Behdad, > >I want to build harfbuzz for windows... What replacement of unicode >functions should I use? Is there any native support in windows that I can >use to provide the unicode functions. > >-- >Samiullah Khawaja
And a reply: >ICU is (more or less) the recommended choice. However, I actually had >less trouble getting glib to work on Windows, but that might be fault of >mingw. > >Unfortunately both ICU and glib are huge frameworks with their own set >of dependencies. A stripped-down standalone library that provides a >unicode character database and nothing more would be great to have. > >I implemented HarfBuzz support in libass, but projects like Aegisub or >VLC still ship without HarfBuzz on Windows because the ICU/glib >requirement is such a pain. :( > >Best regards >Grigori What to do now? Isn't there anyway to use HarfBuzz in Windows without the "cross compiling" thing? Regards, Safa. _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
