[Interest] harfbuzz support?

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer perezmeyer at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 15:04:15 CEST 2015


On Sunday 12 April 2015 01:20:36 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Qt can be built with or without support for text rendering using
> harfbuzz. Qt4 and Qt5 seem to differ slightly in this aspect, but from
> what I understand both can be made to use harfbuzz at runtime even
> when not compiled to use it (by default).
> I'd like to test this, as it would probably let text rendering benefit
> from the Infinality patches I have applied to my FreeType library.
> 
> I checked my build of the Qt 4.8.7 snapshot released the other day:
> it's been built without giving a harfbuzz option, which should be
> equivalent to
> 
>  *  -no-harfbuzz ....... Disable HarfBuzz on Mac. It can still be
> enabled by setting
>                          QT_ENABLE_HARFBUZZ environment variable.

Qt5 has the -system-harfbuzz compile switch, I don't know Qt4. If it doesn't 
it maybe tries to autodetect the lib at build time.

-- 
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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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