Needs to work on Windows (even without Harfbuzz if necessary)

[tbrowder]

David, how can I help? Have you looked at the Windows PDF packages at Chocolatey.org? I see a version of Ghostscript there.

[dwarring]

Hi Tom, Good point.

The Harfbuzz team supply a set of official DLLs https://harfbuzz.github.io/install-harfbuzz.html.

It would be good to get the HarfBuzz modules working on Windows. Particularly now that PDF::Content depends on it.

I'll get onto it soon.

• David

[dwarring]

I've been trying a simple experiment to link against the DLLS. Trying to get a call to hb_version to work on Windows.

hbtest.c:

#include <stdio.h>
void hb_version(int* major, int* minor, int* micro);

void hbtest(void) {
    int major=0, minor=0, micro=0;
    hb_version(&major, &minor, &micro);
    fprintf(stderr, "version is %02d.%0d2.%02d\n", major, minor, micro);
}

Makefile:

all : hbtest.dll

hbtest.dll : hbtest.obj
    gcc -shared -Lharfbuzz-win32 -o harfbuzz-win32/hbtest.dll hbtest.obj
    -llibharfbuzz-0

$(SRC)/hbtest.obj : hbtest.c
    gcc -I $(SRC) -c -o hbtest.obj hbtest.c

No luck so far. I'm coming to the conclusion that this may not be the right approach. I'm thinks that those DLLs are designed to be used with executables such as hb-shape.exe, which are also included.

[dwarring]

So back to the drawing board. PDF::Content installs for me, but PDF::Font::Loader doesn't because it has HarfBuzz as a dependency.

So all you can do on Windows at the moment is use core fonts.

[tbrowder]

Thanks for the update, David.

-Tom

On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 15:04 David Warring @.***> wrote:

So back to the drawing board. PDF::Content installs for me, but PDF::Font::Loader doesn't because it has HarfBuzz as a dependency.

So all you can do on Windows at the moment is use core fonts.

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