Re: [Freetype] VC++ Project up to date?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I just downloaded the 2.1 FreeType and tried using the VC++
> projects.  It seems like they may not be up to date.

This is very likely.  Patches are welcome.

> 1 - The library created is still called "freetype200b8_D.lib".
> Shouldn't the name be changed to reflect the actual version number,
> etc?

Of course.

> 2 - The various demo projects don't compile since they have no
> source code for them..  I had to download "ft201dmo.zip", unzip it,
> and then copy all the files from that source tree to the main
> FreeType2/Demo source tree.  The reason is that the demos in the
> FreeType tree (such as ftstring, etc) have the source hardcoded like
> this...
> 
> D:\Program Files\DevStudio\MyProjects\FreeType2\demos\src\common.c
> 
> However, when you just unzip the demo tree, you get paths like this...
> 
> D:\Program Files\DevStudio\MyProjects\ft2demos-2.0.1\src

Again, fixes would be great.

> 3 - I had to remove the linking references to "odbc32.lib" and
> "odbccp32.lib".  A search on all my hard drives revealed no such
> libraries.  I am using VC++ 5.0, so perhaps it has something to do
> with that?

I can't help here, sorry.

> freetype200b8_D.lib(ftinit.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external
> symbol _psaux_module_class

Please get the current snapshot.  I think this has been fixed two or
three days after the release of 2.0.1.


    Werner