| For the development of HarfBuzz, the Microsoft shaping technology, Uniscribe, |
| as a widely used and tested shaper is used as more-or-less OpenType reference |
| implementation and that specially is important where OpenType specification |
| is or wasn't that clear. For having access to Uniscribe on Linux/macOS these |
| steps are recommended: |
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| 1. Install Wine from your favorite package manager. |
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| 2. And `mingw-w64` compiler. |
| With `brew` on macOS, you can have it like `brew install mingw-w64` |
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| 3. Download and put [this](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3_fQkxDZZXXbWltRGd5bjVrUDQ) |
| on your `~/.local/i686-w64-mingw32`. |
| |
| 4. Replace all the instances of `/home/behdad/.local/i586-mingw32msvc` |
| and `/home/behdad/.local/i686-w64-mingw32` with `<$HOME>/.local/i686-w64-mingw32` |
| on that folder. (`<$HOME>` replace it with `/home/XXX` or `/Users/XXX` on macOS) |
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| Probably you shouldn't replace the ones are inside binaries. |
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| 5. `NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh && mkdir winbuild && cd winbuild` |
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| 6. `../mingw32.sh --with-uniscribe && cd ..` |
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| 7. `make -Cwinbuild` |
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| Now you can use hb-shape using `wine winbuild/util/hb-shape.exe` but if you like to |
| to use the original Uniscribe, |
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| 8. Bring a 32bit version of `usp10.dll` for yourself from `C:\Windows\SysWOW64\usp10.dll` of your |
| Windows installation (assuming you have a 64-bit installation, otherwise `C:\Windows\System32\usp10.dll`) |
| that it is not a DirectWrite proxy ([for more info](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniscribe)). |
| Rule of thumb, your `usp10.dll` should have a size more than 500kb, otherwise |
| it is designed to work with DirectWrite which Wine can't work with its original one. |
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| Put the dll on the folder you are going to run the next command, |
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| 9. `WINEDLLOVERRIDES="usp10=n" wine winbuild/util/hb-shape.exe fontname.ttf -u 0061,0062,0063 --shaper=uniscribe` |
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| (`0061,0062,0063` means `abc`, use test/shaping/hb-unicode-decode to generate ones you need) |