FcConfigParseAndLoadFromMemory(3)

💖 FcConfigParseAndLoadFromMemory(3) 💖

okay so bestie, this is a section 3 manual page for FcConfigParseAndLoadFromMemory — yes the whole name is a mouthful, we're gonna say it together, it's fine 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

FcConfigParseAndLoadFromMemory — load a configuration from memory 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <fontconfig/fontconfig.h>

FcBool FcConfigParseAndLoadFromMemory (FcConfig *config, const FcChar8 *buffer, FcBool complain);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what this does is it walks the configuration sitting in 'memory' and builds the internal representation of it inside 'config'. Like, it takes your in-memory vibes and turns them into a real actual config object. Iconic ✨

Any include files that get referenced from within 'memory' will be loaded and parsed too — so yeah, it'll go chase those down for you, no cap.

Now, about 'complain' 👀 — if 'complain' is FcFalse, then no warning will be displayed if 'file' does not exist. Silent treatment, respectfully. Error and warning messages (when they do happen) get output to stderr.

It returns FcFalse if some error occurred while loading the file — could be a parse error, a semantic error, or an allocation failure 😭. Otherwise it returns FcTrue, which is the slay outcome 💖

And this is the important part, don't skip it 🫶 — after all configuration files / strings have been loaded, with FcConfigParseAndLoad and/or FcConfigParseAndLoadFromMemory, you gotta call FcConfigBuildFonts to build the font database. That's the main character step, don't forget it.

🦋 SINCE 🦋

version 2.12.5

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✨💜 that's the whole page, you ate that 💜✨

this little manual moment came to you from Fontconfig 2.17.0, dated 27 June 2025 — mwah, bye bestie 💅🎀