| To enable HarfBuzz bindings for Python among other languages, make sure |
| you have latest version of gobject-introspection available. On Ubuntu, |
| you can install that this way: |
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| sudo apt-get install libgirepository1.0-dev |
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| And then run autogen.sh (if building from git), and then: |
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| ./configure --with-gobject --enable-introspection |
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| Make sure that gobject-introspection is enabled then in the final report. |
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| Compile and install. |
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| Make sure you have the installation lib dir in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, as needed |
| for the linker to find the library. |
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| Then make sure you also have GI_TYPELIB_PATH pointing to the resulting |
| $prefix/lib/girepository-* directory. |
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| Make sure you have pygobject installed. Then check that the following |
| import works in your Python interpretter: |
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| from gi.repository import HarfBuzz |
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| If it does, you are ready to call HarfBuzz from Python! Congratulations. |
| See src/sample.py. |
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| The Python API will change. Let us know on the mailing list if you are |
| using it, and send lots of feedback. |