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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
or using MacPorts:
sudo port install freetype glib2 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/.
    
      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
or using MacPorts:
sudo port install autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig ragel gtk-doc