1On Linux, install the development packages for FreeType, Cairo, and GLib. For 2example, on Ubuntu / Debian, you would do: 3 4 $ sudo apt-get install meson pkg-config ragel gtk-doc-tools gcc g++ libfreetype6-dev libglib2.0-dev libcairo2-dev 5 6whereas on Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, and other Red Hat based systems you would do: 7 8 $ sudo dnf install meson pkgconfig gtk-doc gcc gcc-c++ freetype-devel glib2-devel cairo-devel 9 10and on ArchLinux and Manjaro: 11 12 $ sudo pacman -Suy meson pkg-config ragel gcc freetype2 glib2 glib2-devel cairo 13 14On macOS: 15 16 brew install pkg-config ragel gtk-doc freetype glib cairo meson 17 18Then use meson to build the project and run the tests, like: 19 20 meson build && ninja -Cbuild && meson test -Cbuild 21 22On Windows, meson can build the project like above if a working MSVC's cl.exe 23(`vcvarsall.bat`) or gcc/clang is already on your path, and if you use 24something like `meson build --wrap-mode=default` it fetches and compiles most 25of the dependencies also. It is recommended to install CMake either manually 26or via the Visual Studio installer when building with MSVC, using meson. 27 28Our CI configurations are also a good source of learning how to build HarfBuzz. 29 30There is also amalgamated source provided with HarfBuzz which reduces whole process 31of building HarfBuzz to `g++ src/harfbuzz.cc -fno-exceptions` but there is 32no guarantee provided with buildability and reliability of features you get. 33