Re: [ft] Building freetype under cygwin

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Running into some problem building freetype for Windows under
> cygwin, using mingw compiler. The problem seems to be with build
> process launching an Win32 executable, and passing Cygwin paths to
> it, resulting in:
> 
> 
> /home/alex/freetype-2.6/objs/apinames.exe \
> -o/home/alex/freetype-2.6/objs/ftexport.sym \
> /home/alex/freetype-2.6/include/freetype/ttnameid.h \
> [...]
>
> could not open '/home/alex/freetype-2.6/include/freetype/ttnameid.h'
> for writing

This is *very* strange!  Why does the `ftexport.sym' argument gets
ignored, making apinames try to write to `ttnameid.h'?

On my GNU/Linux box, this works just fine, and we've never got a error
report, and the corresponding source and Makefile code is essentially
unchanged since years...

Please try to manually call

  /home/alex/freetype-2.6/objs/apinames.exe \
  -o/home/alex/freetype-2.6/objs/ftexport.sym \
  /home/alex/freetype-2.6/include/freetype/ttnameid.h \
  /home/alex/freetype-2.6/include/freetype/freetype.h

and check whether `ftexport.sym' contains identifiers.


    Werner