On Linux, install the development packages for FreeType,

Cairo, and GLib. For example, on Ubuntu / Debian, you would do:

* sudo apt-get install gcc g++ libfreetype6-dev libglib2.0-dev libcairo2-dev

whereas on Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, and other Red Hat based systems you would do:

* sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ freetype-devel glib2-devel cairo-devel

on the Mac, using MacPorts:

* sudo port install freetype glib2 cairo

or using Homebrew:

* brew install freetype glib cairo

If you are using a tarball, you can now proceed to running configure and make

as with any other standard package. That should leave you with a shared

library in src/, and a few utility programs including hb-view and hb-shape

under util/.  From the tarball, NMake Makefiles are also provided in win32/,

which supports building HarfBuzz using Visual Studio, with a README.txt that

gives instructions on building using NMake.

If you are bootstraping from git, you need a few more tools before you can

run autogen.sh for the first time. Namely, pkg-config and ragel. Again,

on Ubuntu / Debian:

* sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool pkg-config ragel gtk-doc-tools

and on Fedora, RHEL, CentOS:

* sudo yum install autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig ragel gtk-doc

on the Mac, using MacPorts:

* sudo port install autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig ragel gtk-doc

or using Homebrew:

* brew install autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig ragel gtk-doc

To build the Python bindings, you also need:

* brew install pygobject3