Re: [Devel] Build system for Freetype2

[Werner LEMBERG]

A longer time ago you asked:

> Currently, I see
>   detect.mk   (which is used on setup, I got that)
>   dos-def.mk  (which is I assume the default settings for DOS)
>   dos-gcc.mk  (which is the default config.mk to be used with DJGPP/gcc)
> 
> But the detect.mk does have others options, particularly for
> some 16-bit compilers (the thing I really want testing... ;-)).

[Now there is dos-wat.mk also.]

> So my real question is:
>  - are these lacking files sleeping on the (brocken) hard disk of
>   David, and should I construct them myself (should probably not be
>   hard)
>  - alternatively, were they forcasted but never actively done,
>   resulting in the same work to do
>  - or are they simply at another place I did not peek at?

AFAIK, the necessary files have never been written.  Do you want to
contribute them?  For example, to add support for Borland's 16bit
compiler, you have to write a bcc16.mk file (probably using a
`foreach' loop in the LINK_LIBRARY variable similar to watcom.mk since
the command line will be too long otherwise) and a dos-bcc.mk file
which includes it.

BTW, I think that it would be a good idea now to test FT2 with 16bit
compilers -- Wolfgang has done a lot of work by adding the necessary
casts, so the remaining problems are silent 32bit assumptions which
should be removed.  Since 64bit compilers are more and more common, we
have to get rid of such problems anyway.


    Werner