With these changes, on Ubuntu I can do:

./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc  && make

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Not sure where this is documented, but I remember this being the desired
behavior.

test-shape-complex failures are down from 48 to 46.  Meh.

Not quite working just yet.  False alarm re 10 failures.  It was
crashing.  Ouch!  Back to 48 failures.

Not applied yet.

Brings test-shape-complex failures down from 52 to 10!

I hereby declare harfbuzz-ng supporting Indic!

But I'm not sure...  Down from 54 failures to 52.

In old-style Indic OT standards, the post-base Halants are moved after
their base.  Emulate that by moving first post-base Halant to
post-last-consonant.

Brings test-shape-complex failures down from 88 to 54.  Getting there!

Old HarfBuzz test suite always shaped as left-to-right and hence had wrong
0x14db, direction expected glyphstring for N'ko.  Doh!

Failures down from 92 to 88.

Brings test-shape-complex failures down from 104 to 92.  Way to go!

Is the categorization correct?  I don't know.

Number of failing shape-complex tests goes from 125 down to 94.

Next: Add Ra handling and it's fair to say we kinda support Indic :).

Find the base consonant and apply basic Indic features accordingly.
Nothing complete, but does something for now.  Specifically:
no Ra handling right now, and no ZWJ/ZWNJ.

Number of failing shape-complex tests goes from 174 down to 125.

Next: reorder matras.

Buffer var allocation coming into shape

Looks *so* much nicer!

Buffer debugging coming soon.

I've messed up a lot of stuff recently, different parts of the
shaping process are stumbling on eachother's toes because
manually tracking what's in which buffer var is hard.  I'm
going to add some internal API to track those such that mistakes
are discovered as soon as they are introduced.