Re: mjps3 and Freetype

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Thanks for the reply.  I am now trying to compile a thread safe
> version of freetype and am not having much success.  I have done a
> dist clean in the freetype directory. Then I modified the
> ft_conf.h.in file to define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_THREAD_SAFE.  I then
> set up the build to use my own ttmutex.c file, which implements
> using POSIX mutexes.
> 
> When I try to build freetype I get these error messages:
> [...]
> cc-1148 cc: ERROR File = ./file.c, Line = 266
>   Expression must have "struct" or "union" type.
> 
>      engine.file_component = NULL;
>      ^
> [...]

I think this is a bug.  Unfortunately, I don't have time currently to
check it (and, admittedly, I don't fully understand the thread
stuff :-)

Can someone on the list check this, please?  Maybe it is helpful if
you can provide your ttmutex.c together with hints which thread
implementation you use.


    Werner