[squeak-dev] Where to find the FT2Plugin sources

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Sep 27 19:45:26 UTC 2009


On 27.09.2009, at 18:51, John M McIntosh wrote:

> The last time I compiled it for os-x was via
>
> MCHttpRepository
> 	location: 'http://source.impara.de/freetype'
> 	user: ''
> 	password: ''
>
>
> However to compile for os-x  the original xcode project came from  
> bert. I don't think it's in the squeakvm svn tree.
> Then I had to use macports to install freetype, plus then build a  
> universal version for intel and powerpc.
> Then you take the static libraries and link into the plugin.
> If you choose to use the dynamic libraries you will find mixed  
> satisfaction since thru-out the 10.4/10.5 versions of os-x
> it was plagued with issues in resolving problems between font files  
> and cocoa's viewpoint.

Hmm, it looks like we intended to move it to SqueakSource:

http://www.squeaksource.com/Freetype.html

but never got around to do it ...

Anybody interested in doing this? I.e., copying all versions from the  
impara server over to SqueakSource? And possibly even improving on them?

- Bert -





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