[XeTeX] XeTeX for Linux

[Jonathan Kew]

On 2 May 2006, at 5:28 pm, Sukhi Venkat (TnQ) wrote:

[Re: building on Fedora Core 3]

> I installed ImageMagick-6.2.7-2.i386.rpm.
>
> but got the following error message!
> ....
> ../../../../TeX/texk/web2c/xetexdir/XeTeX_ext.c: In function
> `loadOTfont':
> ../../../../TeX/texk/web2c/xetexdir/XeTeX_ext.c:556: warning: passing
> arg 4 of `
> createLayoutEngine' from incompatible pointer type
> ../../../../TeX/texk/web2c/xetexdir/XeTeX_ext.c:556: warning: passing
> arg 5 of `
> createLayoutEngine' from incompatible pointer type

These warnings are harmless (though I should clean up the code to  
eliminate them, of course)....

> ../../../../TeX/texk/web2c/xetexdir/XeTeX_ext.c:1765:30: wand/magick-
> wand.h: No
> such file or directory

....but this is not; it means that the header files for the "magick- 
wand" interface that XeTeX uses were not installed, or at least not  
in a place that the compiler could find. And this leads to the  
following errors, as the various data types and functions are unknown.

It may be that the ImageMagick package you installed was only a user  
package (containing the libraries and executable tools, but not the  
header files needed for software development). See if FC3 has an  
"ImageMagick-devel" package or some similar name. (This applies to  
Fontconfig and Freetype2, as well ..... you need development packages  
installed on your system, not only runtime ones, in order to compile  
a program that uses these libraries. But I think if the build reached  
this point, you probably have those already.)

JK