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Is freetype font locking limited to xcb, xlib? #26

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I'm learning cairo, so it's very possible I'm making a mistake here, so thank you ahead of time for your patience!

From what I know, Cairo exposes functions cairo_ft_scaled_font_lock_face and cairo_ft_scaled_font_unlock_face to make sure Freetype functions are not called simultaneously. cl-cairo2 wraps these two functions in the macro with-ft-scaled-face-locked. However, the two foreign functions that with-ft-scaled-face-locked uses are only available if I load either the system cl-cairo2-xcb or cl-cairo2-xlib.

I want to use Freetype fonts to write to a memory region attached to a Wayland wl_buffer. I'm under the impression that xcb and xlib are competitor libraries implementing the client-side of the X protocol, which I don't need for this use case. Do these libraries provide something beyond that, which Freetype font locking needs to work, or is this an artificial restriction?

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