Re: Questions about building Pango statically & dynamically

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Did you try configuring with --with-included-modules?

behdad

Nick Zitzmann wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I've been searching around Google and have found nothing to answer my
> questions, so I'm asking here.
> 
> I'm trying to build an LGPL'd framework for Mac OS X, and I want to
> statically link Pango and the ATSUI module into the framework so I don't
> have to distribute them separately. I'm using Pango 1.21.4 and Glib
> 2.17.6, and I'm compiling Pango against the Cairo back-end (not X). And
> I'm running into a few problems:
> 
> 1. If I build Pango without shared libraries, then the build succeeds,
> but the pango.modules file is almost empty. OK, so I understand I can
> statically link the ATSUI module into the framework with the Pango
> static library and work around this, but how do I do that?
> 
> 2. Searching around for answers to question #1, I came across the
> pango_module_register() function, which apparently manually registers
> modules if statically linked. But when I define PANGO_ENABLE_BACKEND and
> include pango-modules.h, I get the following build errors:
> 
> /usr/local/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-modules.h:38: error: expected
> ')' before '*' token
> /usr/local/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-modules.h:40: error: expected
> ';' before 'void'
> /usr/local/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-modules.h:48: error: expected
> '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
> 
> I must be leaving out something, but what? I'm using GCC 4.2 and I'm
> building with the GNU99 dialect. I tried switching dialects to C99, and
> building with GCC 4.0, and there was no improvement in either case.
> 
> 3. And finally, I can't get Pango to build at all as a dynamic library.
> When I try, the console gets flooded with messages like these:
> 
> (process:11109): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2458: initialization
> assertion failed, use g_type_init() prior to this function
> 
> (pango-querymodules:11109): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot retrieve
> class for invalid (unclassed) type `<invalid>'
> 
> (pango-querymodules:11109): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_enum_get_value:
> assertion `G_IS_ENUM_CLASS (enum_class)' failed
> 
> (pango-querymodules:11109): Pango-WARNING **: Engine reported invalid
> script value -1
> 
> What's going on here? If it helps, my Glib installation is static-only.
> 
> Thanks for any advice...
> 
> Nick Zitzmann
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