Re: [ft] Inconsistency between ftoption.h and generated binary

[SiegeLord]

On 07/29/2017 11:43 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Indeed.  Please open a bug tracker issue.

Done.

> Is there a reason you can't use `freetype-config' or `freetype.pc'?
> Both solutions can report the necessary static libraries:

Essentially because it doesn't work with MSVC. My project uses CMake to 
do its thing (in particular, it's preferable to let it discover the 
locations of zlib/libpng/etc using its own mechanisms, instead of 
grabbing the link commands from freetype-config). Thus it'd be ideal if 
there was a cross-compiler representation of what should be linked in 
(ftoption.h is in some ways ideal for this). I actually got pretty far 
by introspecting freetype-config, but it's not clear what 
freetype-config should look like for MSVC.

For now, my workaround is to force the user of my build script to 
specify manually what FreeType should be linked alongside with.