[ft-devel] building freetype 2.3.11 on Mac OS X 10.6

[Sean McBride]

Hi all,

I just got around to trying 2.3.11 on 10.6, like so:

export CC=/Developer/usr/bin/clang
export CXX=/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2
export CFLAGS="-Wall -Wextra -arch i386"
export CXXFLAGS="-Wall -Wextra -arch i386"

There are many messages like this:

ld: warning: in /Users/sean/Downloads/freetype-2.3.11/objs/.libs/
ftsystem.o, file is not of required architecture

If I instead use -arch x86_64 those warnings do not appear.  I suspect
that something is assuming architectures or something is not passing my
arch flag to something else.  Note that on 10.5 the compiler defaults to
i386 (32 bit) but on 10.6 it defaults to x86_64 (64 bit).

Other than that, there is only one compiler warning:

/Users/sean/Downloads/freetype-2.3.11/src/tools/apinames.c:268:39:
warning: field precision should have type 'int', but argument has type 'long'
      [-Wformat]
              fprintf( stderr, ">>> %.*s\n", p-name, name );
                                      ^      ~~~~~~
This surprised me, but the 'printf' man page does say that '*' expects
an int.  It doesn't seem likely that p-name would overflow an int, so I
guess a cast would be ok.

Cheers,

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Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada