1 To enable HarfBuzz bindings for Python among other languages, make sure 2 you have latest version of gobject-introspection available. On Ubuntu, 3 you can install that this way: 4 5 sudo apt-get install libgirepository1.0-dev 6 7 And then run autogen.sh (if building from git), and then: 8 9 ./configure --with-gobject --enable-introspection 10 11 Make sure that gobject-introspection is enabled then in the final report. 12 13 Compile and install. 14 15 Make sure you have the installation lib dir in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, as needed 16 for the linker to find the library. 17 18 Then make sure you also have GI_TYPELIB_PATH pointing to the resulting 19 $prefix/lib/girepository-* directory. 20 21 Make sure you have pygobject installed. Then check that the following 22 import works in your Python interpretter: 23 24 from gi.repository import HarfBuzz 25 26 If it does, you are ready to call HarfBuzz from Python! Congratulations. 27 See src/sample.py. 28 29 The Python API will change. Let us know on the mailing list if you are 30 using it, and send lots of feedback. 31
