Re: [Freetype] Any other ways for building FreeType2?

[David Turner]

Hello Kim,

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> Hello.
>
> I'm Kim Do Yeon, working for Samsung Electronics.
>
> Would it be all rigt if I asked the questions as follows about FreeType2.
> There are a few questions in building the FreeType2.
> I followed the documentation notes for the building, which detects the platform 
> automatically,
> then builds the library. and the demo programs in ft2demos-2.1.2 work well.
> But the problem is when I need to execute the test programs on the other 
> platform, After
> building them under the previous platform(differnt).
> I know If I built the Freetype2 on the target platform, there would be no 
> problem.
> but there is a reason that I have to compile on the diffrent platform then 
> execute on the target platfrom.
> I just tried to change gcc with target-arch-dependent gcc..but I found that It 
> did not work as I expected.
> Maybe There must be somewhat faults in modifying Makefiles...
> It's somewhat difficult to change the complicated makefiles for the person who 
> faces the FreeType2 for the
> first time.
> So, Could you suggest the simple way just for Compiling a test program using 
> the FreeType2 library?
> Suppose that threre is just a test program like "test.c", which reads Font 
> Files and a character, then transfer
> the character into the related bitmap.
> What is the easiest way to make the execution file for the test.c, just for the 
> particular platform.
>
> It would be a great help for me, If you give me the suggestion for the 
> questions.

There are really several ways to build FreeType:

  - on Unix, use ./configure --cross-compiling-options; make;
    You'll need GNU Make (exclusively !!)

  - on other platforms, or even on Unix, you can still use the built-in
    build system, which uses GNU Make too. To support a new platform,
    you'll probably need to add "builds/<yoursystem>/detect.mk"
    as well as "builds/compiler/<yourtoolset>.mk", but you'll need
    to study other templates/examples to understand how to do that

  - another way is to use FTJam (see www.freetype.org/jam/jam.html).
    you have also the option to _read_ the Jamfiles (and Jamrules)
    to understand how the build is done if you don't want to use
    this tool...

  - finally, you can build it "by hand", as described in "docs/BUILD"

Hope this helps,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)



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> Kim Do Yeon
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