Windows executable fails to start

[rawhat]

Hi! First of all, huge thanks for doing this, this is fantastic!

I pulled down your ligatures branch and was able to build it on Windows, but it crashes on start-up. I see that you made some changes on your fork of the crossfont repo, which did touch some DirectWrite stuff. But not really sure if it's unsupported or an unexpected failure. The error I get is:

PS C:\Users\Alex\alacritty-fork> .\target\release\alacritty.exe
PS C:\Users\Alex\alacritty-fork> Created log file at "C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Temp\Alacritty-15304.log"
[2020-08-03 16:57:57.489506100] [ERROR] Alacritty encountered an unrecoverable error:

        A DirectWrite rendering error occurred: 0x80070057

It's building and running successfully on my WSL2 + VcXsrv setup, which is awesome. But I'd prefer to run it natively in Windows if possible.

Happy to provide any additional information if I can help!

[zenixls2]

This branch currently only tested on Linux, and ligature may/may not work for MacOS(implemented but not tested yet). DirectWrite there is almost left untouched. If you are willing to contribute, feel free to send a pr to my crossfont fork.

Leave the issue open until windows gets supported

[zenixls2]

In my fork of crossfont project, there's a windows branch. Would you mind to run cargo test -- --nocapture on it to see if it works?
Also, maybe you could try to modify the test cases in src/directwrite/mod.rs to test about the strings and fonts you want. Since I don't have a windows machine, I need your help to accomplish the goal of supporting ligature in DirectWrite.