Re: GTK2 on Tru64

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 6/02/2004 4:14 PM, Bob Marcan wrote:

> If i understand properly XFT is part of the XFree86 and Xserver should
> have Xrender extension.
> On the Tru64, we don't have either.
> I like to have XFT, but how?
>
> Will in the future Gtk2 support only xft?
> Will you put us, non Linux, non Intel people out in the cold? :-(
> I beg you, please put back the --disable-xft feature.


Xft is actually a client side library for font rendering.  If the X 
server supports the Render extension it can be used to accelerate Xft, 
but it is in no way a requirement.

If you are using a platform that doesn't come with the Xft library, you 
will need to install it (along with its prerequisites).  You can 
download tarballs from these two sites:
   
http://pdx.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/releases/fontconfig-2.2.0.tar.gz
   http://freedesktop.org/~xlibs/release/

You will need to install fontconfig, renderext, libXrender and libXft.  
After this, you should be able to compile pango and GTK.

James.

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