[Vm-dev] Problems with building a freetype plugin on linux

[Igor Stasenko]

I know that, Andreas.

But the problem is not in that. I repeat: Damn CMAKE does not adds a
search path to
/usr/include/freetype2 , where all these files rooted!



On 28 April 2010 04:15, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Just FYI, this include is just plain broken in FT2Plugin. The correct usage
> of Freetype is by using the macros, for example FT_FREETYPE_H and
> FT_OUTLINE_H. The correct macro to use here is:
>
>        cg addHeaderFile: 'FT_TRUETYPE_TABLES_H'.
>
> Instead of using either 'tttables.h' OR 'freetype/tttables.h' See the
> Freetype documentation about using the header files correctly:
>
> http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step1.html
>
> The reason it works on Windows is that I'm going out of my way to add
> freetype/ to the include path (which is wrong too but it works).
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>
> On 4/27/2010 5:59 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 02:51:58AM +0300, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>
>>> gcc -g -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLSB_FIRST=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -I/home/sig/squeak/src/build -I/home/sig/squeak/src/platforms/unix/vm
>>> -I/home/sig/squeak/src/platforms/Cross/vm
>>> -I/home/sig/squeak/src/src/vm -c
>>> /home/sig/squeak/src/src/plugins/FT2Plugin/FT2Plugin.c  -fPIC -DPIC
>>> -DPIC -o FT2Plugin.o
>>>
>>> In file included from
>>> /home/sig/squeak/src/src/plugins/FT2Plugin/FT2Plugin.c:30:
>>> /usr/include/ft2build.h:56:38: error: freetype/config/ftheader.h: No
>>> such file or directory
>>>
>>> and ftheader.h contents says:
>>>
>>>   /* `<prefix>/include/freetype2' must be in your current inclusion path
>>> */
>>> #include<freetype/config/ftheader.h>
>>>
>>> So, it looks like a gcc flags missing the include option:
>>>
>>> -I/use/include/freetype2
>>
>> See platforms/unix/plugins/FT2Plugin/FT2PluginHeaderFix-ikp.1.cs for the
>> patch that Ian used to address this. I cannot say if it works on Windows,
>> if so Ian's patch should be included in the FT2Plugin. Otherwise it
>> presumably should be addressed in CMake to get the include path right.
>>
>> I'm not sure who is the maintainer of FT2Plugin. I have the VMMaker
>> configuration map pointing at source.impara.de/freetype, but I'm not
>> sure if this is being actively maintained.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>



-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.