Re: Building on Mac

Which Mac OSX are you running? I was recently able to build Fontforge using
Macports on 10.7, but not 10.6. Frank Trampe helped me though that, though.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Max Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote:

> It has been many years since I have been able to build a working
> FontForge with a GUI on Mac. I'm using Homebrew but I can try installing
> another package manager if it would help. How is it done? The configure
> script dies after outputting
>
> """
>
> checking for PANGO... no
> configure: error: Package requirements (pango >= 1.10 pangoxft) were not
> met:
>
> Package 'xft', required by 'pangoxft', not found
>
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PANGO_CFLAGS
> and PANGO_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>
> """
>
> But the Homebrew package "pango" as well as "pangox-compat" are
> installed. About a year ago I spent a whole day trying to get it
> working, but unfortunately I've forgotten anything I managed to diagnose
> then... Can anybody point me in the right direction to start? (Something
> like "it'll never work with Homebrew because foo; use bar instead" could
> save me a lot of wasted time)
>
> All the best,
>
> Max
>
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