Re: fontconfig configration file search path in static build on windows

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

----- 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