FcConfigParseAndLoad(3)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the FcConfigParseAndLoad(3) page — it's literally the manual for loading a configuration file, and yes, she ate. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <fontconfig/fontconfig.h>

FcBool FcConfigParseAndLoad (FcConfig *config, const FcChar8 *file, FcBool complain);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: FcConfigParseAndLoad walks the configuration in file and constructs the internal representation in config. the way it just does that? iconic. 💅

any include files referenced from within file will be loaded and parsed too — no cap, it handles the whole little family tree. 🌸

now, the complain girlies: if complain is FcFalse, no warning will be displayed if file does not exist. ngl, that's the "keep it quiet" setting. 🙈

error and warning messages will be output to stderr, so if something's off, that's where the drama shows up. 💀

it returns FcFalse if some error occurred while loading the file — either a parse error, semantic error or allocation failure. otherwise returns FcTrue. periodt. ✨

and here's the follow-up step, bestie: after all configuration files / strings have been loaded, with FcConfigParseAndLoad and/or FcConfigParseAndLoadFromMemory, call FcConfigBuildFonts to build the font database. that's the main character move. 👑

fr fr, don't skip that last part — the page says to call FcConfigBuildFonts after all the configuration files / strings are loaded. 🫶

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okay that's the whole page — Fontconfig 2.17.0, 27 June 2025, signing off with maximum sparkle 💅🌈🦋