[Mono-osx] Building libgdiplus on OS X
Alex Shulgin
alexander.shulgin at yessoftware.com
Tue Jun 2 03:07:06 EDT 2009
Lee V. Andrus wrote:
> I am inclined toward fixing things that actually do not work or do not
> work well (like bugs and missing pieces in the Carbon Driver) more
> than eliminating build-time dependencies. Can you give me an idea of
> the scope of the change that would require? Would it require
> rewriting gdi+ as implied by the comment line I quoted above?
Actually, there's already a patch in trunk/libgdiplus to use pango
instead of freetype2/fontconfig, but it's not complete--the level of
text rendering support is worse than current level w/o the patch. You
can try --with-pango=yes to enable this patch.
--
Alex
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