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Re: Relationship between freetype and libfreetype and their versioning?


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: Relationship between freetype and libfreetype and their versioning?
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:53:51 +0000 (UTC)

> What is relationship between freetype and libfreetype?  Do know or
> have some tips how to map libfreetype version to freetype?

See

  
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/blob/master/docs/VERSIONS.TXT

> $ otool -L libfreetype.dylib.6
> libfreetype.dylib.6:
>     @rpath/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 23.0.0, current version 
> 23.1.0)

This looks indeed strange.  I have no idea how MacOS dylib version
numbers are derived from libtool version numbers (which we use).  The
rules for mapping libtool to GNU/Linux DLLs versions can be found
here:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Versioning.html


    Werner



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