[Devel] MacOS X and FT_New_Face

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

I ran into this problem.
> Riccardo Cohen wrote:
> > with my version (2.1.2) I had to comment the line 112 #define 
> > FT_MACINTOSH 1 in file include/freetype/config/ftconfig.h because 
> > this line make it consider macosx like macos9 from the ft_new_face 
> > point of view, which is wrong.
> It seems this definition is encapsulated in a test. The code is:
>    #if defined( __APPLE__ ) || ( defined( __MWERKS__ ) && defined( 
> macintosh ) )
>    #define FT_MACINTOSH 1
>    #endif
>
> We probably need a better test to disable this on MacOS-X.
> Or should we compiled *both* FT_New_Face and the MacOS specific APIs
> on MacOS-X ? (A small new configuration macro would be required then,
> but that's nothing really difficult).
>
> Any ideas ?

May i suggest the following construction ???
__APPLE__ && !(__mach__ )
That would keep it undefined on the OSX platform when you compile it as 
unix code.
which is at least better then the current situation.

DJ

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