FAQ change wrt FontForge

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at codeweavers.com
Sun Nov 23 21:59:58 CST 2008


"James McKenzie" <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:

>>> I think these changes are wrong. As far as I know the TrueType fonts are 
>>> checked into Git so one does not need to have FontForge to build Wine. 
>>> Or has this changed? Or is FontForge needed to build another type of 
>>> fonts?
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Yes, you right. I totally forgot that we added .ttf fonts to git. I'll fix
>> the required packages page.
>>
>>   
> Vitally:
> 
> I think that FontForge is still needed for the Darwine Build.  Some of
> the problems related to Vanilla Wine builds on the Mac Intel platform
> may be related to the lack of FontForge on the Mac.

Then you need to fix that on the Darwine side.

-- 
Dmitry.



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