Re: [ft-devel] ft2demos with X11 on OS X (XQuartz)

[suzuki toshiya]

Dear Adam,

Do you mean that other X11 programs (e.g. xterm) could
be started correctly, but ft2demos could not be?
I will try to find some access to the recent Mac OS X...

Regards,
mpsuzuki

Adam Twardoch (Lists) wrote:
> I once somehow had managed to build a version of ft2demos tools which worked 
> with the OS X X11 (XQuartz) server.
> 
> But now, with the standard "autogen.sh then make" of current git FreeType 
> plus the "make" of current git ft2demos, the tools build but when trying to 
> use them, I get:
> 
> ftmulti 72 CinzelGX.ttf
> cannot open X11 display
> could not allocate display surface
> 
>   error = 0x0000
> 
> Perhaps this is because in the recent versions of Mac OS X, X11 is not 
> included by default but the optional XQuartz installer ( 
> http://www.xquartz.org/ ) installs X11 into:
> 
> /opt/X11
> 
> Maybe this could be automatically recognized by FT?
> 
> A.
> 
>