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From: Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...> - 2016-02-16 02:57:16
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This is just information. From an demand, I have built static linked gnuplot binary on windows. However, fontconfig feature could not be used because fontconfig cannot find fontconfig configuration path if fontconfig path is relative to ../etc/fonts from bin. This directory structure only effective using dll version fontconfig. For static link on windows, fontconfig 2.11.1, fontconfig application search fonts directory where a exe file exist. See: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2016-February/005676.html Tatsuro |
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From: sfeam <sf...@us...> - 2016-02-16 03:32:08
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On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 11:57:06 AM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: > This is just information. > > >From an demand, I have built static linked gnuplot binary on windows. > > However, fontconfig feature could not be used because > fontconfig cannot find fontconfig configuration path > if fontconfig path is relative to ../etc/fonts from bin. > > This directory structure only effective using dll version fontconfig. > > For static link on windows, fontconfig 2.11.1, fontconfig application > search fonts directory where a exe file exist. > > See: > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2016-February/005676.html Is there some reason you cannot set FONTCONFIG_PATH? If this path is the same for multiple applications then they would all benefit from the same "first" initialization of the font cache. Ethan |
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From: Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...> - 2016-02-16 03:52:49
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----- Original Message ----- > From: sfeam > To: gnuplot-beta; Tatsuro MATSUOKA > Cc: > Date: 2016/2/16, Tue 12:30 > Subject: Re: fontconfig configration file search path in static build on windows > > On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 11:57:06 AM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: >> This is just information. >> >> >From an demand, I have built static linked gnuplot binary on windows. >> >> However, fontconfig feature could not be used because >> fontconfig cannot find fontconfig configuration path >> if fontconfig path is relative to ../etc/fonts from bin. >> >> This directory structure only effective using dll version fontconfig. >> >> For static link on windows, fontconfig 2.11.1, fontconfig application >> search fonts directory where a exe file exist. >> >> See: >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2016-February/005676.html > > Is there some reason you cannot set FONTCONFIG_PATH? > > If this path is the same for multiple applications then they would > all benefit from the same "first" initialization of the font cache. > > Ethan Unlike Unix, on windows there are many different applications which use different version of fontconfig or different setting or build of fontconfig. So global seting PATH preferably is avoided if possible. In addition, if we use gnuplot in usb stick, FONTCONFIG_PATH is not set easily. Tatsuro |
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From: sfeam <sf...@us...> - 2016-02-16 04:10:00
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On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 12:52:38 PM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: sfeam > > To: gnuplot-beta; Tatsuro MATSUOKA > > Cc: > > Date: 2016/2/16, Tue 12:30 > > Subject: Re: fontconfig configration file search path in static build on windows > > > > On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 11:57:06 AM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: > >> This is just information. > >> > >> >From an demand, I have built static linked gnuplot binary on windows. > >> > >> However, fontconfig feature could not be used because > >> fontconfig cannot find fontconfig configuration path > >> if fontconfig path is relative to ../etc/fonts from bin. > >> > >> This directory structure only effective using dll version fontconfig. > >> > >> For static link on windows, fontconfig 2.11.1, fontconfig application > >> search fonts directory where a exe file exist. > >> > >> See: > >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2016-February/005676.html > > > > Is there some reason you cannot set FONTCONFIG_PATH? > > > > If this path is the same for multiple applications then they would > > all benefit from the same "first" initialization of the font cache. > > > > Ethan > > > Unlike Unix, on windows there are many different applications which use different version of fontconfig > or different setting or build of fontconfig. I understand. But this is the path to the font cache, not the path to the library executable. > So global seting PATH preferably is avoided if possible. You really do want a shared path for system fonts. Otherwise all programs that use the fonts suffer from this same problem. Sharing a font cache will benefit all of the them. > In addition, if we use gnuplot in usb stick, FONTCONFIG_PATH is not set easily. Doesn't windows have some way of setting this once for the user, rather than many times for each program that runs? Ethan |
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From: Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...> - 2016-02-16 04:29:49
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----- Original Message ----- > From: sfeam > To: gnuplot-beta; Tatsuro MATSUOKA > > Cc: > Date: 2016/2/16, Tue 13:09 > Subject: Re: fontconfig configration file search path in static build on windows > > On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 12:52:38 PM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> > From: sfeam >> > To: gnuplot-beta; Tatsuro MATSUOKA >> > Cc: >> > Date: 2016/2/16, Tue 12:30 >> > Subject: Re: fontconfig configration file search path in static build > on windows >> > >> > On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 11:57:06 AM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: >> >> This is just information. >> >> >> >> >From an demand, I have built static linked gnuplot binary on > windows. >> >> >> >> However, fontconfig feature could not be used because >> >> fontconfig cannot find fontconfig configuration path >> >> if fontconfig path is relative to ../etc/fonts from bin. >> >> >> >> This directory structure only effective using dll version > fontconfig. >> >> >> >> For static link on windows, fontconfig 2.11.1, fontconfig > application >> >> search fonts directory where a exe file exist. >> >> >> >> See: >> >> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2016-February/005676.html >> > >> > Is there some reason you cannot set FONTCONFIG_PATH? >> > >> > If this path is the same for multiple applications then they would >> > all benefit from the same "first" initialization of the font > cache. >> > >> > Ethan >> >> >> Unlike Unix, on windows there are many different applications which use > different version of fontconfig >> or different setting or build of fontconfig. > > I understand. > But this is the path to the font cache, not the path to the library executable. > >> So global seting PATH preferably is avoided if possible. > > You really do want a shared path for system fonts. > Otherwise all programs that use the fonts suffer from this same problem. > Sharing a font cache will benefit all of the them. TeX for windows (like MiKTeX) uses fontconfig. The font configuration for TeX for windows is different from that of the original fontconfig. I would like to avoid unexpected conflict different setting of font configuration file. From this demand, windows version fontconfig may have feature to search font configuration path relatively if FONTCONFIG_PATH is not set from some version of fontconfig. (The above is just my speculation.) >> In addition, if we use gnuplot in usb stick, FONTCONFIG_PATH is not set > easily. > > Doesn't windows have some way of setting this once for the user, > rather than many times for each program that runs? > The USB stick can set on different computer but the drive name of USB is different if computer is different. Setting FONTCONFIG_PATH is not useful for portable use. Tatsuro |
