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Re: Freetype on cygwin link...
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:24:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Freetype on cygwin link...
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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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