this is from the FAQ that came with the font maker.
How do I edit fonts on MS windows?
To run FontForge under MS windows you must first install the cygwin environment.
* First download the setup.exe program from http://www.cygwin.com/
* Run it. It will ask you what components of cygwin you wish to install
* You will need the base components, the X window system, xorg-x11-base, and xterm (NOTE: These are separate packages)
* Once you have cygwin installed, start it. This should give you a terminal window running bash (a unix shell)
* Download the cygwin version of FontForge, and move it to whatever directory you think most appropriate (/usr/local/bin is a reasonable choice)
$ mkdir -p /usr/local/share/fontforge /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man/man1
$ cd /tmp
$ tar xfzv fontforge_cygwin*.tar
$ cd fontforge
$ mv *.ui /usr/local/share/fontforge
$ mv fontforge.1 /usr/local/man/man1
$ mv fontforge.exe /usr/local/bin
Then edit the file ~/.bashrc by (or by whatever other tool you prefer):
$ cat >> ~/.bashrc
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin ; export PATH
MANPATH=${MANPATH:-}:/usr/local/man ; export MANPATH
^D
* Then each time you want to run fontforge, type:
$ xinit
* This should bring up X in a large window that covers the screen and within that should be a subwindow, an xterm, running bash.
* From the xterm you should be able start FontForge.
$ fontforge -new
If you want to be able to build FontForge under cygwin, you will need to grab some other cygwin components, like gcc, the image processing libraries, freetype, etc.
this is sooooo confusing. i dont know what to do. there are so many problems. i went to http://www.cygwin.com/ and got the setup.exe. but it was SOOO wiered and confusing and didnt make sense AT ALL. my problem isnt so much with this, but with that setup.exe thing i downloaded. i have no clue whats going on here.
