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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2020-11-14 15:55:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2020-11-14 15:55:35 +0200 |
| commit | d875a22bc6bebb1e45dd39c451fef4e264fca4e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 0539ad8f25466eb4b99da42aa9ba6ea6a376ac77 /nt/INSTALL | |
| parent | e2c7b6372d220d09f5d1bf80aa353979a546c57c (diff) | |
| download | emacs-d875a22bc6bebb1e45dd39c451fef4e264fca4e3.tar.gz | |
Update the various INSTALL files
* nt/INSTALL.W64:
* nt/INSTALL:
* INSTALL: Update the installation information, in particular the
fact that HarfBuzz is now preferred as the shaping library.
Diffstat (limited to 'nt/INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | nt/INSTALL | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL index 2fe2c8c2673..27fb5f096f7 100644 --- a/nt/INSTALL +++ b/nt/INSTALL @@ -502,11 +502,21 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems). Does Emacs use -lgnutls? yes Does Emacs use -lxml2? yes Does Emacs use -lfreetype? no + Does Emacs use HarfBuzz? yes Does Emacs use -lm17n-flt? no Does Emacs use -lotf? no Does Emacs use -lxft? no + Does Emacs use -lsystemd? no + Does Emacs use -ljansson? yes + Does Emacs use the GMP library? yes Does Emacs directly use zlib? yes + Does Emacs have dynamic modules support? yes Does Emacs use toolkit scroll bars? yes + Does Emacs support Xwidgets? no + Does Emacs have threading support in lisp? yes + Does Emacs support the portable dumper? yes + Does Emacs support the legacy unexec dumping? no + Which dumping strategy does Emacs use? pdumper You are almost there, hang on. @@ -815,6 +825,14 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems). the libjansson DLL (for 32-bit builds of Emacs) are available from the ezwinports site and from the MSYS2 project. +* Optional support for HarfBuzzz shaping library + + Emacs supports display of complex scripts and Arabic shaping. The + preferred library for that is HarfBuzz; prebuilt binaries are + available from the ezwinports site (for 32-bit builds of Emacs) and + from the MSYS2 project. If HarfBuzz is not available, Emacs will + use the Uniscribe shaping engine that is part of MS-Windows. + This file is part of GNU Emacs. |