[Bf-committers] Freetype issues

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

It's firstly the 'platform maintainers' being responsible for  
committing libs to CVS. Meaning, for Windows that's Simon and for OSX  
Jean-Luc.

Maybe they can give a quick reply?

-Ton-

On 21 Feb, 2005, at 23:01, Gilbert, Joseph wrote:

> If it's no problem for you, i prefer to have the most recent version of
> the
> Freetype Library in CVS.
> ------------
> I don't have a prob with a newer version. Just trying to maintain a
> known compatible version with ftgl. My tests with 2.1.9 didn't go well
> initially because of the otlxxx dependencies in the newer version but I
> can see about doing this if it's o.k. I figured that this version is  
> the
> smallest and was tested against the ftgl build we have.
>
> Freetype requires no patches, and I'm not really sure why it is added  
> to
>
> CVS.
> ------------
> The activeX controller requires builds of the freetype and solid libs
> that define symbols the same way MFC does. In their current .lib
> presence they do not. A patch file (.cpp) would fix the issue (of the  
> ax
> controller failing), also a few different versions of the freetype2  
> libs
> would work, as well as building freetype from source. The current  
> static
> lib committed to /lib/windows causes noisy linking complaints and also
> causes the activex controller to fail. Since the solid source is  
> already
> in the cvs, is not a problem to build as needed and it would be best to
> build freetype as needed too. Hopefully this is not too much of a
> disruption, as I did not mean it to be. :(
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bf-committers-bounces at projects.blender.org
> [mailto:bf-committers-bounces at projects.blender.org] On Behalf Of Rob
> Haarsma
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 3:24 PM
> To: bf-blender developers
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Freetype issues (was MSVC7 users rejoice!)
>
> Gilbert, Joseph wrote:
>
>> **PSS freetype 2.0.5 is what FTGL 2.0.11 is compiled against.
>>
>>
> This could be the case, but since FTGL is also in CVS (as bFTGL), it
> gets
> compiled against the Freetype version committed to the Blender CVS.
> If it's no problem for you, i prefer to have the most recent version of
> the
> Freetype Library in CVS.
>
> joeedh wrote:
>
>> I believe the one in CVS was patched specially for Blender.
>
> Not really... you're mistaken with FTGL, which indeed is patched for
> Blender.
> Freetype requires no patches, and I'm not really sure why it is added  
> to
>
> CVS.
>
> Regards,
> Rob
>
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