Draft: contrib: qtbase: disable harfbuzz for windows (!5285) · Merge requests · VideoLAN / VLC

Fatih Uzunoğlu requested to merge fuzun/vlc:qt/disableharfbuzzonwindows into master Apr 21, 2024

Disabling harfbuzz should further reduce the binary size.

According to the Qt docs:

-harfbuzz ............ Select used HarfBuzz-NG [system/qt/no] (Not auto-detected on Apple and Windows)

Harfbuzz is not detected on Windows by default. However, we use -system-harfbuzz, and this seems to make it force-enabled on Windows.

This is marked as draft, because Qt has a bug (at least in Qt 6.5) that Harfbuzz is, for some reason, necessary to use Unicode Private Use Area characters. I previously created an issue for it: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-116417. It has not been fixed so far, but if Qt 6.7 does not have the issue we can proceed with this.

Draft: contrib: qtbase: disable harfbuzz for windows

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