The Fribidi library facilitates rendering of right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew. Though I'm not a native speaker of these languages, I am interested in various languages of the world. Thus I compiled fribidi 0.19.2 with MinGW, as shown below.
Download the Fribidi source from fribidi.org. Launch MSYS and unpack the source.
tar xzvf fribidi-0.19.2.tar.gz
cd fribidi-0.19.2
I configured fribidi by simply typing:
./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-glib --disable-debug
If you only want to create a static library, append --disable-shared to the configure line. Then, I began compilation:
make -C charset
make -C lib
make -C lib install
I got an error that said “libtool: link: more than one -exported-symbols argument is not allowed.” To fix it, I edited lib/Makefile as follows:
libfribidi_la_LDFLAGS = -no-undefined -version-info $(LT_VERSION_INFO) \
-export-symbols-regex "^fribidi_.*" # $(am__append_1)
Fribidi2 doesn't install fribidi-config. Some programs like mplayer look for fribidi-config to use fribidi. To enable fribidi support for such programs, create a new sh script /mingw/bin/fribidi-config with the following contents:
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
--version)
pkg-config --modversion fribidi
;;
--cflags)
pkg-config --cflags fribidi
;;
--libs)
pkg-config --libs fribidi
;;
*)
false
;;
esac
If you want to link your program with the static Fribidi library (libfribidi.a), you should define FRIBIDI_ENTRY with an empty string. In other words, you should type something like this when you configure:
CPPFLAGS=' -DFRIBIDI_ENTRY="" ' ./configure --prefix=/mingw
If you want to link your program with the shared Fribidi library (libfribidi-0.dll), you should define WIN32 as follows:
CPPFLAGS='-DWIN32' ./configure --prefix=/mingw
