diff --git a/src/harfbuzz-gobject.def b/src/harfbuzz-gobject.def
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ca952cf43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/harfbuzz-gobject.def
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+EXPORTS
+hb_gobject_blob_get_type
+hb_gobject_buffer_cluster_level_get_type
+hb_gobject_buffer_content_type_get_type
+hb_gobject_buffer_diff_flags_get_type
+hb_gobject_buffer_flags_get_type
+hb_gobject_buffer_get_type
+hb_gobject_buffer_serialize_flags_get_type
+hb_gobject_buffer_serialize_format_get_type
+hb_gobject_direction_get_type
+hb_gobject_face_get_type
+hb_gobject_feature_get_type
+hb_gobject_font_funcs_get_type
+hb_gobject_font_get_type
+hb_gobject_glyph_flags_get_type
+hb_gobject_glyph_info_get_type
+hb_gobject_glyph_position_get_type
+hb_gobject_memory_mode_get_type
+hb_gobject_ot_layout_glyph_class_get_type
+hb_gobject_ot_math_constant_get_type
+hb_gobject_ot_math_glyph_part_flags_get_type
+hb_gobject_ot_math_glyph_part_get_type
+hb_gobject_ot_math_glyph_variant_get_type
+hb_gobject_ot_math_kern_get_type
+hb_gobject_script_get_type
+hb_gobject_segment_properties_get_type
+hb_gobject_set_get_type
+hb_gobject_shape_plan_get_type
+hb_gobject_unicode_combining_class_get_type
+hb_gobject_unicode_funcs_get_type
+hb_gobject_unicode_general_category_get_type
+hb_gobject_user_data_key_get_type
+LIBRARY libharfbuzz-gobject-0.dll
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diff --git a/src/harfbuzz-icu.def b/src/harfbuzz-icu.def
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aa86e93ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/harfbuzz-icu.def
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+EXPORTS
+hb_icu_get_unicode_funcs
+hb_icu_script_from_script
+hb_icu_script_to_script
+LIBRARY libharfbuzz-icu-0.dll
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diff --git a/src/harfbuzz-subset.def b/src/harfbuzz-subset.def
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d422f7255
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/harfbuzz-subset.def
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+EXPORTS
+hb_subset
+hb_subset_get_all_codepoints
+hb_subset_input_create_or_fail
+hb_subset_input_destroy
+hb_subset_input_drop_hints
+hb_subset_input_glyph_set
+hb_subset_input_reference
+hb_subset_input_unicode_set
+hb_subset_profile_create
+hb_subset_profile_destroy
+LIBRARY libharfbuzz-subset-0.dll
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diff --git a/src/harfbuzz.def b/src/harfbuzz.def
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..87ea315bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/harfbuzz.def
@@ -0,0 +1,310 @@
+EXPORTS
+hb_blob_copy_writable_or_fail
+hb_blob_create
+hb_blob_create_from_file
+hb_blob_create_sub_blob
+hb_blob_destroy
+hb_blob_get_data
+hb_blob_get_data_writable
+hb_blob_get_empty
+hb_blob_get_length
+hb_blob_get_user_data
+hb_blob_is_immutable
+hb_blob_make_immutable
+hb_blob_reference
+hb_blob_set_user_data
+hb_buffer_add
+hb_buffer_add_codepoints
+hb_buffer_add_latin1
+hb_buffer_add_utf16
+hb_buffer_add_utf32
+hb_buffer_add_utf8
+hb_buffer_allocation_successful
+hb_buffer_append
+hb_buffer_clear_contents
+hb_buffer_create
+hb_buffer_deserialize_glyphs
+hb_buffer_destroy
+hb_buffer_diff
+hb_buffer_get_cluster_level
+hb_buffer_get_content_type
+hb_buffer_get_direction
+hb_buffer_get_empty
+hb_buffer_get_flags
+hb_buffer_get_glyph_infos
+hb_buffer_get_glyph_positions
+hb_buffer_get_language
+hb_buffer_get_length
+hb_buffer_get_replacement_codepoint
+hb_buffer_get_script
+hb_buffer_get_segment_properties
+hb_buffer_get_unicode_funcs
+hb_buffer_get_user_data
+hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties
+hb_buffer_normalize_glyphs
+hb_buffer_pre_allocate
+hb_buffer_reference
+hb_buffer_reset
+hb_buffer_reverse
+hb_buffer_reverse_clusters
+hb_buffer_reverse_range
+hb_buffer_serialize_format_from_string
+hb_buffer_serialize_format_to_string
+hb_buffer_serialize_glyphs
+hb_buffer_serialize_list_formats
+hb_buffer_set_cluster_level
+hb_buffer_set_content_type
+hb_buffer_set_direction
+hb_buffer_set_flags
+hb_buffer_set_language
+hb_buffer_set_length
+hb_buffer_set_message_func
+hb_buffer_set_replacement_codepoint
+hb_buffer_set_script
+hb_buffer_set_segment_properties
+hb_buffer_set_unicode_funcs
+hb_buffer_set_user_data
+hb_direction_from_string
+hb_direction_to_string
+hb_face_create
+hb_face_create_for_tables
+hb_face_destroy
+hb_face_get_empty
+hb_face_get_glyph_count
+hb_face_get_index
+hb_face_get_table_tags
+hb_face_get_upem
+hb_face_get_user_data
+hb_face_is_immutable
+hb_face_make_immutable
+hb_face_reference
+hb_face_reference_blob
+hb_face_reference_table
+hb_face_set_glyph_count
+hb_face_set_index
+hb_face_set_upem
+hb_face_set_user_data
+hb_feature_from_string
+hb_feature_to_string
+hb_font_add_glyph_origin_for_direction
+hb_font_create
+hb_font_create_sub_font
+hb_font_destroy
+hb_font_funcs_create
+hb_font_funcs_destroy
+hb_font_funcs_get_empty
+hb_font_funcs_get_user_data
+hb_font_funcs_is_immutable
+hb_font_funcs_make_immutable
+hb_font_funcs_reference
+hb_font_funcs_set_font_h_extents_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_font_v_extents_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_contour_point_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_extents_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_from_name_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_advance_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_kerning_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_origin_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_name_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_advance_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_kerning_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_origin_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyph_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_user_data
+hb_font_funcs_set_variation_glyph_func
+hb_font_get_empty
+hb_font_get_extents_for_direction
+hb_font_get_face
+hb_font_get_glyph
+hb_font_get_glyph_advance_for_direction
+hb_font_get_glyph_contour_point
+hb_font_get_glyph_contour_point_for_origin
+hb_font_get_glyph_extents
+hb_font_get_glyph_extents_for_origin
+hb_font_get_glyph_from_name
+hb_font_get_glyph_h_advance
+hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning
+hb_font_get_glyph_h_origin
+hb_font_get_glyph_kerning_for_direction
+hb_font_get_glyph_name
+hb_font_get_glyph_origin_for_direction
+hb_font_get_glyph_v_advance
+hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning
+hb_font_get_glyph_v_origin
+hb_font_get_h_extents
+hb_font_get_nominal_glyph
+hb_font_get_parent
+hb_font_get_ppem
+hb_font_get_ptem
+hb_font_get_scale
+hb_font_get_user_data
+hb_font_get_v_extents
+hb_font_get_var_coords_normalized
+hb_font_get_variation_glyph
+hb_font_glyph_from_string
+hb_font_glyph_to_string
+hb_font_is_immutable
+hb_font_make_immutable
+hb_font_reference
+hb_font_set_face
+hb_font_set_funcs
+hb_font_set_funcs_data
+hb_font_set_parent
+hb_font_set_ppem
+hb_font_set_ptem
+hb_font_set_scale
+hb_font_set_user_data
+hb_font_set_var_coords_design
+hb_font_set_var_coords_normalized
+hb_font_set_variations
+hb_font_subtract_glyph_origin_for_direction
+hb_ft_face_create
+hb_ft_face_create_cached
+hb_ft_face_create_referenced
+hb_ft_font_changed
+hb_ft_font_create
+hb_ft_font_create_referenced
+hb_ft_font_get_face
+hb_ft_font_get_load_flags
+hb_ft_font_set_funcs
+hb_ft_font_set_load_flags
+hb_glib_blob_create
+hb_glib_get_unicode_funcs
+hb_glib_script_from_script
+hb_glib_script_to_script
+hb_glyph_info_get_glyph_flags
+hb_language_from_string
+hb_language_get_default
+hb_language_to_string
+hb_ot_font_set_funcs
+hb_ot_layout_collect_lookups
+hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookups
+hb_ot_layout_feature_with_variations_get_lookups
+hb_ot_layout_get_attach_points
+hb_ot_layout_get_glyph_class
+hb_ot_layout_get_glyphs_in_class
+hb_ot_layout_get_ligature_carets
+hb_ot_layout_get_size_params
+hb_ot_layout_has_glyph_classes
+hb_ot_layout_has_positioning
+hb_ot_layout_has_substitution
+hb_ot_layout_language_find_feature
+hb_ot_layout_language_get_feature_indexes
+hb_ot_layout_language_get_feature_tags
+hb_ot_layout_language_get_required_feature
+hb_ot_layout_language_get_required_feature_index
+hb_ot_layout_lookup_collect_glyphs
+hb_ot_layout_lookup_substitute_closure
+hb_ot_layout_lookup_would_substitute
+hb_ot_layout_script_find_language
+hb_ot_layout_script_get_language_tags
+hb_ot_layout_table_choose_script
+hb_ot_layout_table_find_feature_variations
+hb_ot_layout_table_find_script
+hb_ot_layout_table_get_feature_tags
+hb_ot_layout_table_get_lookup_count
+hb_ot_layout_table_get_script_tags
+hb_ot_math_get_constant
+hb_ot_math_get_glyph_assembly
+hb_ot_math_get_glyph_italics_correction
+hb_ot_math_get_glyph_kerning
+hb_ot_math_get_glyph_top_accent_attachment
+hb_ot_math_get_glyph_variants
+hb_ot_math_get_min_connector_overlap
+hb_ot_math_has_data
+hb_ot_math_is_glyph_extended_shape
+hb_ot_shape_glyphs_closure
+hb_ot_shape_plan_collect_lookups
+hb_ot_tag_from_language
+hb_ot_tag_to_language
+hb_ot_tag_to_script
+hb_ot_tags_from_script
+hb_ot_var_find_axis
+hb_ot_var_get_axes
+hb_ot_var_get_axis_count
+hb_ot_var_has_data
+hb_ot_var_normalize_coords
+hb_ot_var_normalize_variations
+hb_script_from_iso15924_tag
+hb_script_from_string
+hb_script_get_horizontal_direction
+hb_script_to_iso15924_tag
+hb_segment_properties_equal
+hb_segment_properties_hash
+hb_set_add
+hb_set_add_range
+hb_set_allocation_successful
+hb_set_clear
+hb_set_create
+hb_set_del
+hb_set_del_range
+hb_set_destroy
+hb_set_get_empty
+hb_set_get_max
+hb_set_get_min
+hb_set_get_population
+hb_set_get_user_data
+hb_set_has
+hb_set_intersect
+hb_set_invert
+hb_set_is_empty
+hb_set_is_equal
+hb_set_next
+hb_set_next_range
+hb_set_previous
+hb_set_previous_range
+hb_set_reference
+hb_set_set
+hb_set_set_user_data
+hb_set_subtract
+hb_set_symmetric_difference
+hb_set_union
+hb_shape
+hb_shape_full
+hb_shape_list_shapers
+hb_shape_plan_create
+hb_shape_plan_create2
+hb_shape_plan_create_cached
+hb_shape_plan_create_cached2
+hb_shape_plan_destroy
+hb_shape_plan_execute
+hb_shape_plan_get_empty
+hb_shape_plan_get_shaper
+hb_shape_plan_get_user_data
+hb_shape_plan_reference
+hb_shape_plan_set_user_data
+hb_tag_from_string
+hb_tag_to_string
+hb_unicode_combining_class
+hb_unicode_compose
+hb_unicode_decompose
+hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility
+hb_unicode_eastasian_width
+hb_unicode_funcs_create
+hb_unicode_funcs_destroy
+hb_unicode_funcs_get_default
+hb_unicode_funcs_get_empty
+hb_unicode_funcs_get_parent
+hb_unicode_funcs_get_user_data
+hb_unicode_funcs_is_immutable
+hb_unicode_funcs_make_immutable
+hb_unicode_funcs_reference
+hb_unicode_funcs_set_combining_class_func
+hb_unicode_funcs_set_compose_func
+hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_compatibility_func
+hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_func
+hb_unicode_funcs_set_eastasian_width_func
+hb_unicode_funcs_set_general_category_func
+hb_unicode_funcs_set_mirroring_func
+hb_unicode_funcs_set_script_func
+hb_unicode_funcs_set_user_data
+hb_unicode_general_category
+hb_unicode_mirroring
+hb_unicode_script
+hb_variation_from_string
+hb_variation_to_string
+hb_version
+hb_version_atleast
+hb_version_string
+LIBRARY libharfbuzz-0.dll
diff --git a/subprojects/.gitignore b/subprojects/.gitignore
index 13602578f..04b04874b 100644
--- a/subprojects/.gitignore
+++ b/subprojects/.gitignore
@@ -3,4 +3,6 @@
 /glib
 /fontconfig
 /libffi
+/proxy-libintl
+/zlib
 /packagecache
diff --git a/subprojects/proxy-libintl.wrap b/subprojects/proxy-libintl.wrap
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f32522ee6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/subprojects/proxy-libintl.wrap
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[wrap-git]
+directory=proxy-libintl
+url=https://github.com/centricular/proxy-libintl.git
+revision=master
diff --git a/subprojects/zlib.wrap b/subprojects/zlib.wrap
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..de1e861e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/subprojects/zlib.wrap
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[wrap-git]
+directory=zlib
+url=https://github.com/centricular/zlib.git
+revision=meson
diff --git a/test/fuzzing/meson.build b/test/fuzzing/meson.build
index f6c8890bd..d72cd6ea5 100644
--- a/test/fuzzing/meson.build
+++ b/test/fuzzing/meson.build
@@ -20,11 +20,13 @@ endforeach
 env = environment()
 env.set('srcdir', meson.current_source_dir())
 
-test('shape_fuzzer', python3,
+run_shape_fuzzer_tests = find_program('run-shape-fuzzer-tests.py')
+
+test('shape_fuzzer', run_shape_fuzzer_tests,
   args: [
-    files('run-shape-fuzzer-tests.py')[0],
     hb_shape_fuzzer_exe,
   ],
+  depends: [hb_shape_fuzzer_exe, libharfbuzz, libharfbuzz_subset],
   workdir: join_paths(meson.current_build_dir(), '..', '..'),
   env: env)
 
diff --git a/test/shaping/meson.build b/test/shaping/meson.build
index d8854fe9f..f6ef3016b 100644
--- a/test/shaping/meson.build
+++ b/test/shaping/meson.build
@@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ foreach test_data : in_house_tests
   test(test_name, python3,
     args: [
       files('run-tests.py')[0],
-      hb_shape.full_path(),
+      hb_shape,
       join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'data/in-house/tests', fname),
     ],
-    workdir: meson.current_source_dir(),
+    workdir: join_paths(meson.current_build_dir(), '..', '..'),
   )
 endforeach
 
@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ foreach test_data : text_rendering_tests
   test(test_name, python3,
     args: [
       files('run-tests.py')[0],
-      hb_shape.full_path(),
+      hb_shape,
       join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'data/text-rendering-tests/tests', fname),
     ],
-    workdir: meson.current_source_dir(),
+    workdir: join_paths(meson.current_build_dir(), '..', '..'),
   )
 endforeach
diff --git a/test/subset/meson.build b/test/subset/meson.build
index ae9e7ea25..8e6d1ca3f 100644
--- a/test/subset/meson.build
+++ b/test/subset/meson.build
@@ -4,17 +4,20 @@ tests = [
   ['japanese.tests'],
 ]
 
-foreach test_data : tests
-  fname = test_data[0]
+# The test tries to run which unconditionally, windows doesn't agree
+if find_program('which', required: false).found()
+  foreach test_data : tests
+    fname = test_data[0]
 
-  test_name = fname.split('.')[0].underscorify()
+    test_name = fname.split('.')[0].underscorify()
 
-  test(test_name, python3,
-    args: [
-      files('run-tests.py')[0],
-      hb_subset.full_path(),
-      join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'data/tests', fname),
-    ],
-    workdir: meson.current_source_dir(),
-  )
-endforeach
+    test(test_name, python3,
+      args: [
+        files('run-tests.py')[0],
+        hb_subset,
+        join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'data/tests', fname),
+      ],
+      workdir: join_paths(meson.current_build_dir(), '..', '..'),
+    )
+  endforeach
+endif
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