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<p>This page describes how to compile both ttfautohint and
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<h2>Compilation With MacPorts</h2>
<p>If you have <a href="https://macports.org">MacPorts</a>
and are comfortable with it, you can install ttfautohint
(together with libttfautohint) and ttfautohintGUI quite
easily.</p>
<p>To install the ttfautohint command line executable, open
Terminal.app and type</p>
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sudo port install ttfautohint</pre>
<p>Enter your Mac login password, then press the return key
again. This installs the currently released version.</p>
<p>You can execute the ttfautohint executable on the command
line with</p>
<pre>
ttfautohint</pre>
<p>followed by an appropriate set of arguments as detailed
in the <a href="doc/ttfautohint.html">usage
documentation</a>.</p>
<p>To install both the ttfautohint command line executable
and the GUI version, use</p>
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sudo port install ttfautohint +qt5</pre>
<p>instead of the above installation command. Enter your
Mac login password, then press the return key again. This
installs the currently released version using
the <a href="https://www.qt.io">Qt5</a> framework. If you
want to use the Qt4 framework (for example, if you have a
MacOS version that is not supported by Qt5),
replace <code>+qt5</code> with <code>+qt4</code> in the
above command.</p>
<p>After installation you can now type</p>
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ttfautohintGUI</pre>
<p>from the Terminal app to start the GUI.</p>
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<h2>Compilation With Homebrew</h2>
<p class="warning">Warning 1: Since autumn 2018,
Homebrew tries to avoid package options. As a
consequence, I had the choice between ttfautohint or
ttfautohintGUI being part of core Homebrew – I decided to
stay with the former. See below if you need
ttfautohintGUI.</p>
<p class="warning">Warning 2: Homebrew only supports
recent MacOS versions (i.e., the current one and two older
releases). For older MacOS versions please use
MacPorts, <a href="#macports">see above</a>.</p>
<p>If you have <a href="https://brew.sh">Homebrew</a> and
are comfortable with it, you can install ttfautohint
(together with libttfautohint) and ttfautohintGUI quite
easily.</p>
<h3>ttfautohint only</h3>
<p>If you do not need the GUI version of ttfautohint, you
can install the ttfautohint command line executable
with</p>
<pre>
brew install ttfautohint</pre>
<p>to get the currently released version. For the git HEAD
version (i.e., the current development version) use</p>
<pre>
brew install --HEAD ttfautohint</pre>
<p>instead.</p>
<p>To upgrade ttfautohint from an older version, please
follow the standard instructions given in
the <a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/FAQ.md#faq">Homebrew
FAQ</a>. However, in case you want to update from an
older <tt>--HEAD</tt> installation to current git HEAD,
you have to use</p>
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brew reinstall --HEAD ttfautohint</pre>
<p>instead of calling <tt>brew upgrade ttfautohint</tt>
(cf. <a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/13197">this
homebrew tracker issue</a>).</p>
<p>You can execute the ttfautohint executable on the command
line with</p>
<pre>
ttfautohint</pre>
<p>followed by an appropriate set of arguments as detailed
in the <a href="doc/ttfautohint.html">usage
documentation</a>.</p>
<h3>ttfautohint and ttfautohintGUI</h3>
<p>If you need the GUI version of ttfautohint (which depends
on the Qt library), you can't use core Homebrew's version.
Instead, please
use <a href="mailto:cosimo@anthrotype.com">Cosimo
Lupo's</a> Homebrew Tap (i.e., a user's github
repository). Calling</p>
<pre>
brew install anthrotype/ttfautohint/ttfautohintGUI</pre>
<p>will both install ttfautohint and ttfautohintGUI. For
the git HEAD version (i.e., the current development
version) use</p>
<pre>
brew install --HEAD anthrotype/ttfautohint/ttfautohintGUI</pre>
<p>instead.</p>
<p>If you want to switch from core Homebrew to Cosimo's tap,
you should start with</p>
<pre>
brew uninstall ttfautohint</pre>
<p>before installing from the tap to avoid
interferences.</p>
<p>After installation you can now type</p>
<pre>
ttfautohintGUI</pre>
<p>from the Terminal app to start the GUI.</p>
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<h2>Compilation From Scratch</h2>
<p>A simple solution to automatically compile ttfautohint
(but not ttfautohintGUI) is Chris
Simpkins's <a href="https://github.com/source-foundry/ttfautohint-build">ttfautohint-build</a>
script.</p>
<p>If you don't have <a href="https://brew.sh">Homebrew</a>
or <a href="https://macports.org">MacPorts</a>, you should
check out one of these two package managers because both
are extremely useful and automate all ttfautohint build
dependency installs for you. But supposing you don't want
to use them, you can install the command line executable
ttfautohint and the ttfautohint GUI on Mac OS X from
scratch.</p>
<p>Following the instructions below, everything except XCode
and Qt gets installed into the
‘<tt>/usr/local/</tt>’ directory tree. You
should thus <em>prepend</em>
‘<tt>/usr/local/bin</tt>’ to your path now (so
that the new programs and scripts get found before the
system ones).
See <a href="https://architectryan.com/2012/10/02/add-to-the-path-on-mac-os-x-mountain-lion/#.Uvm23FZr7RY">here</a>,
for example, how to do that easily. It is possible to
change the default installation directory hierarchy,
though; please read the
generic <a href="https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/INSTALL;hb=HEAD">GNU
installation instructions</a> for more.</p>
<h3>XCode</h3>
<p>We start by installing XCode from the App Store, and then the Command Line
Tools. Instructions are at
<a href="https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.html#installing.xcode">https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.html#installing.xcode</a>.</p>
<h3>pkg-config</h3>
<p>Another preliminary is pkg-config, which is a helper tool
to get library information for both compilation and
linking.</p>
<p>Create a folder in your Home folder called
‘<tt>src</tt>’.</p>
<p>In your browser,
download <a href="https://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.29.2.tar.gz">https://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.29.2.tar.gz</a>.</p>
<p>In Finder, go to your Downloads folder and double click
the <tt>pkg-config-0.29.2.tar.gz</tt> file to unpack it
into a folder named
‘<tt>pkg-config-0.29.2</tt>’. Move that
folder now into the <tt>src</tt> folder you created in
your Home folder.</p>
<p>Open Terminal.app, type</p>
<pre>
cd ~/src/pkg-config-0.29.2</pre>
<p>and press the return key. Continue with</p>
<pre>
./configure</pre>
<p>and press the return key again. You will see a bunch of
text rolling through the Terminal app. When it is done,
type</p>
<pre>
make</pre>
<p>and press the return key to see more text rolling
through. When it is done, type</p>
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sudo make install</pre>
<p>and press the return key. Enter your Mac login password,
then press the return key again.</p>
<h3>FreeType</h3>
<p>Next we install FreeType, the system that ttfautohint is
based on.</p>
<p>In your browser, download
<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.9.1/freetype-2.9.1.tar.gz/download">https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.9.1/freetype-2.9.1.tar.gz/download</a>.</p>
<p>In Finder, go to your Downloads folder and double click
the <tt>freetype-2.9.1.tar.gz</tt> file to unpack it into
a folder named ‘<tt>freetype-2.9.1</tt>’.
Move that folder now into the <tt>src</tt> folder you
created in your Home folder.</p>
<p>Open Terminal.app, type</p>
<pre>
cd ~/src/freetype-2.9.1</pre>
<p>and press the return key. Continue with</p>
<pre>
./configure</pre>
<p>and press the return key again. You will see a bunch of
text rolling through the Terminal app. When it is done,
type</p>
<pre>
make</pre>
<p>and press the return key to see more text rolling
through. When it is done, type</p>
<pre>
sudo make install</pre>
<p>and press the return key. Enter your Mac login password,
then press the return key again.</p>
<h3>HarfBuzz</h3>
<p>This library is also used by ttfautohint to handle
OpenType features in TrueType fonts.</p>
<p>In your browser, download
<a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/harfbuzz-1.8.4.tar.bz2">https://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/harfbuzz-1.8.4.tar.bz2</a>.</p>
<p>In Finder, go to your Downloads folder and double click
the <tt>harfbuzz-1.8.4.tar.bz2</tt> file to unpack it
into a folder named
‘<tt>harfbuzz-1.8.4</tt>’. Move that folder
now into the <tt>src</tt> folder you created in your Home
folder.</p>
<p>Open Terminal.app, type</p>
<pre>
cd ~/src/harfbuzz-1.8.4</pre>
<p>and press the return key. Continue with</p>
<pre>
./configure --with-glib=no</pre>
<p>and press the return key again. You will see a bunch of
text rolling through the Terminal app. When it is done,
type</p>
<pre>
make</pre>
<p>and press the return key to see more text rolling
through. When it is done, type</p>
<pre>
sudo make install</pre>
<p>and press the return key. Enter your Mac login password,
then press the return key again.</p>
<p>[Note: For a complete installation of FreeType you should
now compile and install FreeType again to make it use the
most recent version of HarfBuzz. However, this is not
necessary if you only want to build ttfautohint and
nothing else.]</p>
<h3>Qt</h3>
<p>This step is optional and only required if you intend to
install ttfautohintGUI (the GUI version of ttfautohint).
These steps install the <a href="https://qt.io/">Qt</a>
libraries for ttfautohint's Graphical User Interface.</p>
<p>With your browser, download the latest ‘Qt
Libraries for Mac’ <tt>.dmg</tt> file from
<a href="https://qt.io/download">https://qt.io/download</a>
and install Qt in the normal way. Currently, a direct
link is
<a href="https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.11/5.11.1/qt-opensource-mac-x64-5.11.1.dmg">https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.11/5.11.1/qt-opensource-mac-x64-5.11.1.dmg</a>.</p>
<p>[In case you need Qt 4,
use <a href="https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/4.8/4.8.7/qt-opensource-mac-4.8.7.dmg">https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/4.8/4.8.7/qt-opensource-mac-4.8.7.dmg</a>
instead.]</p>
<h3>ttfautohint</h3>
<p>We are almost finished.
Visit <a href="https://freetype.org/ttfautohint">https://freetype.org/ttfautohint</a>
and in the download section, download the latest version
of the source code. Currently the direct link is
<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ttfautohint/1.8.2/ttfautohint-1.8.2.tar.gz/download">https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ttfautohint/1.8.2/ttfautohint-1.8.2.tar.gz/download</a>.</p>
<p>In Finder, go to your Downloads folder and double click the
<tt>ttfautohint-1.8.2.tar.gz</tt> file to unpack it into a
folder named ‘<tt>ttfautohint-1.8.2</tt>’.
Move the <tt>ttfautohint-1.8.2</tt> folder to
the <tt>src</tt> folder in your Home folder.</p>
<p>In Terminal, type</p>
<pre>
cd ~/src/ttfautohint-1.8.2</pre>
<p>and press the return key.</p>
<p>To include the GUI version of ttfautohint in the
installation, use the following command.</p>
<pre>
./configure --with-doc=no</pre>
<p>To install only the ttfautohint command line executable
(without the GUI version of ttfautohint), use the
following command.</p>
<pre>
./configure --with-doc=no --with-qt=no</pre>
<p>Press the return key again. You will see a bunch of text
rolling through the Terminal app. When it is done,
type</p>
<pre>
make</pre>
<p>and press the return key. Again you will see a bunch of
text rolling through the Terminal app. When it is done,
type</p>
<pre>
sudo make install</pre>
<p>followed by a press to the return key. As above, enter
your Mac login password, then press the return key again.
You will see a bunch of text rolling through the Terminal
app.</p>
<p>For GUI installs, you can launch ttfautohintGUI by
typing</p>
<pre>
ttfautohintGUI</pre>
<p>After pressing the return key, you should now see the
GUI!</p>
<p>You can execute the ttfautohint executable on the command
line with</p>
<pre>
ttfautohint</pre>
<p>followed by an appropriate set of arguments as detailed
in
the <a href="https://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/doc/ttfautohint.html">usage
documentation</a>.</p>
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and <a href="mailto:git.simpkins@gmail.com">Chris
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