[ft-devel] Fw: Freetype, Windows, and static linking.

[Werner LEMBERG]

Alexei, please have a look.


    Werner
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> Freetype, Windows, and static linking.
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> Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:53:08 +0200
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> Hi,
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> Since commit c94d042be61ce3a1cdcf281c473e674a76b117ba
> Author: Alexei Podtelezhnikov <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Jan 2 21:38:35 2018 -0500
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>     * include/freetype/config/ftconfig.h (FT_EXPORT, FT_EXPORT_DEF)
>     [_MSC_VER]: Limit Visual C++ attributes.
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> It is no longer possible to build freetype as a static library on windows.
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> I would suggest guarding the macros that use __declspec with a
> FT_STATIC or FT_SHARED ifdef so that this behavior can easily be
> toggled without needing to mess about with providing a custom
> FT_CONFIG_OPTION_H file.
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> Maybe something like this:
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> @@ -462,6 +462,7 @@ FT_BEGIN_HEADER
>  #endif
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>  #ifdef _MSC_VER
> +#ifndef FT_STATIC
>  #undef FT_EXPORT
>  #ifdef _DLL
>  #define FT_EXPORT( x )  __declspec( dllexport )  x
> @@ -469,6 +470,7 @@ FT_BEGIN_HEADER
>  #define FT_EXPORT( x )  __declspec( dllimport )  x
>  #endif
>  #endif
> +#endif
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