[Devel] Re: (ft-dev) Freetype 2.1.2 on OpenVMS

[Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen]

Martin wrote:

>Still I do have something for the next release ;-) descrip.mms as found
>in the main directories of freetype2 and the demos should be replaced with
>the appended copies of vms_make.com. This does work similar to a configure
>script on Unix (and will recreate the deleted descrip.mms files when executed
>on OpenVMS). Currently the main improvement of this approach over the
>descrip.mms is that it additionally to the "normal" static .olb form of the
>library produces a shareable image (shared object, dynamic link library) on
>OpenVMS Alpha. Further work on the build process is planned for future
>versions of Freetype (e.g. remove descrip.mms from all directories and
>create them all from one central script).

Good idea, the current descrip.mms files were my quick hack to get the
library available. Now it maybe time to smooth the procedure.
I'll test it later

               Jouk


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