Re: [ft-devel] Windows x64 Build Re: Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 105, Issue 12

[Ken Sharp]

At 20:31 23/10/2013 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:


> > Just wish to point out that a copy of the whole of freetype is
> > bundled with ghostscript, and ghostscript has been routinely built
> > for win64 for quite a few years.  For as long as it was, the
> > preferred compiler for building ghostscript for windows has always
> > been MS VC.
>
> I haven't looked for some time, but AFAIK they are using a very
> special set of FreeType source code files, not a vanilla FreeType 2
> distribution.

Nope we use a vanilla FreeType, to the best of my knowledge. I'm not 
dealing with fonts any more though Chris Liddell is, and he may contradict 
me. But as far as I know we don't have any special patches or anything. We 
do use FreeType in a slightly unusual way, that is we seem to be the only 
people using certain of its features, but nothing that is not supported in 
the current code.

Note that on Linux its possible to build Ghostscript so that it will use 
the system shared library for FT, I believe that a number of Linux 
distributions do this (though we would rather people didn't)

                    Ken