[Bf-committers] Freetype issues

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

> 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.

Huh? According to the CVS log you added it? I think this isn't the  
purpose of the extern/ directory. Especially not for sources being  
maintained externally.

Aim should be to pin down for each platform the default version of  
external libs to link with, and put that as an extra service compiled  
in lib/

In my previous mail I didn't know yet freetype sources were added...  
thought the huge commit was project files only.

-Ton-


> ------------
> 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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