[gccsdk] [Bug 184] New: RISC OS version of Pango, Cairo, fontconfig

[Chris Gransden]

Michael Gerbracht wrote:
> In article <bug-184-73 at http.www.riscos.info/bugzilla3/>,
>    <bugzilla-daemon at riscos.info> wrote:
>   
>> pango, cairo and fontconfig all build on RISC OS, but ultimately,
>> fontconfig makes assumptions about font resources and files that don't
>> meaningfully exist on RISC OS, so any such program will fail quickly. [...]
>> Some stuff I did is here, but where it is still useful is unknown:
>>     
>
> That sounds good! I think there is also some use of cairo not connected to
> porting. Is it currently possible to run some of the test files and generate
> e.g. a PDF document with it on RISC OS? If this is possible, can you give me
> a hint on how to do this? 
>
>   

I don't know if this helps. The other way round works. I successfully
compiled and ran the sample program from here,

http://cairographics.org/renderpdf/

All I had to do was copy '/etc/fonts' and '/usr/share/fonts' from ubuntu.

Chris.