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Re: Freetype on cygwin link...


On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Daniel schrieb:
>
> > Any takers?
>
> > This sounds like a bit of delicate work!
>
> No, it isn't.  The patch includes changes to the files used by autoconf
> and libtool.  Source changes are minimal, here they are.  Apply these
> and change to the dirctory with configure.in and ltmain.sh and run:
> autoreconf --verbose --install --force which should end up with s.th.
> like the full patch includes (new aclocal.m4 file, new configure, new
> ltmain.sh) and then libtool-1.5 builds automatically the DLL (because of
> the -no-undefined flag, see below).  FreeType is just a little more
> complex than packages that are using automake.

And the above could be done as part of the "conf()" step in the suggested
build script (see <http://cygwin.com/setup.html>).  Note that there were
some improvements proposed for the build script - see the cygwin-apps
archives.
	Igor
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