[Vm-dev] how to add FTPlugin

[John M McIntosh]

I rebuilt the plugin for 32/64bit VM and 32bit Image support on the mac a few months ago and
push the 64bit fixes to http://source.impara.de/freetype
So this should work. 

I'm not sure if the freetype plugin is linked statically or not with the freetype binary. 
This was a key issue on the macintosh where the supplied freetype binaries trailed 
key fixes for font usability on the mac. 

On 2010-01-24, at 8:09 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:

> 
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 04:25:42PM +0100, laurent laffont wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm a real newbie on vm stuff. I've managed to compile squeak vm 3.11-3.2135
>> on Linux. Now I would like to add FTPlugin as Pharo needs it, but I cannot
>> find where to get it nor  how to include it in the build process.  :(
> 
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> Are you using VMMaker to generate your sources? You will need to do
> this in order to add another plugin such as FTPlugin. If you need
> help with this, just ask.
> 
> John, will need to correct me if the following is not right, as I have
> not looked at FTPlugin in a while and I know he has done recent work
> to update it for 64 bit issues.
> 
> Assuming that you are using VMMaker, then you just need to add FTPlugin.
> First load package FreeType from here:
>  MCHttpRepository
> 	location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/FreeTypePlus'
> 	user: ''
> 	password: ''
> 
> Then load FreeType-Plugin from here:
>  MCHttpRepository
> 	location: 'http://source.impara.de/freetype'
> 	user: ''
> 	password: ''
> 
> For reference, here are the repositories for plugins that I know about
> (and I'm sure it is not all up to date, so corrections are welcome):
>  http://squeaksource.com/VMMaker/update-dtl.2.mcm
> 
> Once this is done, you should be able to open a new VMMaker window,
> or click the "Rescan" button on a VMMaker tool that is already open. 
> Look for "FT2Plugin" in the left hand pane, and drag it over to
> either the "Internal Plugins" or "External Plugins" pane, depending
> on how you want to build it (probably external would be a good choice
> for this plugin).
> 
>> From there you should be able generate sources, and the FT2Plugin
> will be included in the next build.
> 
> Dave
> 

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