[ft] Build errors (Windows and OS X)

[Rainer Deyke]

I encountered the following errors trying to build Freetype 2.3.5 as per 
the build instructions:

Using GNU make on Windows XP with Visual C++ 8.0 Express, I get a 
warning about the /G5 command line option (which this compiler does not 
understand) and some spurious warnings about fopen being unsafe, which 
are turned into errors by the /WX option.  I was able to compile by 
editing the appropriate makefile and removing the /G5 and /WX options.

The INSTALL.ANY instructions are incomplete in that they do not mention 
that FT2_BUILD_LIBRARY needs to be defined when building Freetype.  By 
defining this symbol, I was able to build Freetype on Windows XP with my 
own build system.  (Technically the need for the FT2_BUILD_LIBRARY can 
be eliminated by placing a #define in all source files that need this 
symbol to be defined.)

Compiling on OS X using my own build system and the INSTALL.ANY 
instructions, I keep getting errors that ftbase.c cannot find ftmac.c. 
Investigating further, I find that ftbase.c includes <ftmac.c> using 
angle brackets, which seems to prevent my compiler (Apple gcc 4.0.1) 
from finding the file.

INSTALL.ANY says that both ftbase.c and ftmac.c should be compiled on 
Macintosh computers.  However, ftbase.c tries to #include ftmac.c, so 
this instruction is probably wrong.


--
Rainer Deyke - address@hidden