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Port all fontforge checks to fontbakery native checks

See original GitHub issue

So… fontforge is peculiar because it ships with just a Python 2 module. You could use ctypes to load the DLL directly, but that fails on Windows with a 64 bit Python interpreter because the Windows release is 32 bits only.

Maybe FF’s scripting language can be used directly? Anybody got more experience with that or better ideas?

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Created 5 years ago
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anthrotypecommented, Oct 17, 2018

ok then, just forget about a cross-platform fontforge wheel. Better to rewrite the checks that you care about as pure python.

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anthrotypecommented, Oct 17, 2018

yes, on FF’s appveyor setup, they use mingw-w64 to build for windows. In order to run python scripts from within FF, they embed the python library built for mingw32 or mingw64

https://github.com/fontforge/fontforgebuilds/blob/1b643ce3c481278dcc54b81774eb1e9fc80fbacc/strip-python.sh#L3

FontForge essentially ships with its own version of Python

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