Re: [ft-devel] Adding new platform to installer

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 1/28/2008 7:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> I'm trying to use Freetype in an R package (see www.r-project.org for 
> information about R).  For Windows builds we have built a toolset that 
> makes use of a subset of Cygwin, MinGW compilers, and a few modified 
> tools, including modifications to GNU make so that it finds our sh.  
> (See www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools.) The installer in Freetype 
> doesn't work in this environment, and I'd like to add detection code and 
> a .mk file so that it does.
>
> Currently if I just run "make", it fails saying that "ver" and "type" 
> are not found, presumably because it detects Windows and assumes I'm 
> running in a CMD shell.  Even if I do, I get the same error, because our 
> make doesn't know about CMD internals.
>
> Could someone give me hints about what to modify so that Freetype can 
> detect our environment and build properly?

I've progressed a little further.  I'm skipping the detection step, and 
specifying CONFIG_MK in the top level "make" command.  Now I get this error:

$ make CONFIG_MK=../w32-Rtools.mk
Generating modules list in ./objs/ftmodule.h...
Syntax error: "(" unexpected
make: *** [objs/ftmodule.h] Error 2

This happens when it is processing the

        $(FTMODULE_H_INIT)

line in builds/modules.mk.

The make we're using is based on

GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for i686-pc-cygwin

Any ideas?

Duncan Murdoch