Re: Does somebody knows, where Mplayer looks for fontconfig file by default?

Eugene Kovgar <ken20001 <at> ukr.net> writes:

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> When I using Mplayer with -fontconfig -font "font", it cannot find 
> fonts.conf file. So my questions is where on default Mplayer searching
> for fonts.conf file to put it to.
> 
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> So I don't understand where /etc/fonts/* folders must be.
> 
> When I added FONTCONFIG-FILE="path" to my environment variable, it is working 
> and fonts.conf loading saccesfully, but there must be default path, where 
> Mplayer looking for fonts.conf to not adding new parameter to environment 
> variable, as it would be much better and simplier.
> Thanks.
> 

Hello Eugene,

From the fontconfig source file src/fccfg.c:
/* If the fontconfig DLL is in a "bin" or "lib" subfolder,
       * assume it's a Unix-style installation tree, and use
       * "etc/fonts" in there as FONTCONFIG_PATH. Otherwise use the
       * folder where the DLL is as FONTCONFIG_PATH.
       */
I don't know what happpens if fontconfig is built as a static library.

If you build fontconfig yourself, you can use the --with-confdir option to
the configure script to tell it where to look.