Re: [ft-devel] ABI in detail

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I've checked the code regarding this issue and seems that these two
> symbols are present in the header files of freetype 2.4.12 but
> missed in the shared object.
> 
> These commands return empty output:
> 
> readelf -Wa freetype-2.4.12/lib/libfreetype.so.6.10.1 | grep 
> FTC_Manager_Lookup_Face
> readelf -Wa freetype-2.4.12/lib/libfreetype.so.6.10.1 | grep 
> FTC_Manager_Lookup_Size
> 
> where freetype-2.4.12 — path to the install tree of a library.
> 
> Is it possible to somehow configure the library to force these
> symbols to be exported by the binary object?

It was necessary to compile FreeType with

  #define FT_CONFIG_OPTION_OLD_INTERNALS

(to be set in `ftconfig.h') to have those two functions; this macro
was removed in 2.5.


    Werner