In order to build the library, read the `BUILD' document in the `docs' directory. This is only a quick starter. I. From the command line ------------------------ You need to have GNU Make (version 3.78.1 or newer) installed on your system to compile the library from the command line. This will _NOT_ work with other make tools (including BSD make)! [Well, this is not really correct. Recently, a perl implementation of make called `makepp' has appeared which can also build FreeType 2 successfully on Unix platforms. See http://LNC.usc.edu/~holt/makepp for more details.] - Go to the `freetype2' directory. - Unix (any C compiler should work): - make setup (don't worry, this will invoke a configure script) - make - make install Alternatively, you can pass parameters to the configure script within the CFG variable, as in: - make setup CFG="--prefix=/usr" - make - make install - Windows: We provide a version of GNU Make for Win32 on the FreeType site. See http://www.freetype.org/download.html for details. - gcc (Mingw, _not_ CygWin): - make setup - make - Visual C++: - make setup visualc - make - other compilers: - make setup xxxx - make where "xxxx" is a special target corresponding to your compiler. To see a list of supported compilers in this release, type: make setup list II. In your own environment (IDE) --------------------------------- You need to add the directories "freetype2/include" to your include path when compiling the library. FreeType 2 is made of several components; each one of them is located in a subdirectory of "freetype2/src". For example, `freetype2/src/truetype/' contains the TrueType font driver. DO NOT COMPILE ALL C FILES! Rather, compile the following ones: -- base components (required) src/base/ftsystem.c src/base/ftinit.c src/base/ftdebug.c src/base/ftbase.c src/base/ftglyph.c src/base/ftbbox.c src/base/ftmm.c src/base/ftmac.c -- only on the Macintosh -- other components are optional src/autohint/autohint.c -- auto hinting module src/cache/ftcache.c -- cache sub-system (in beta) src/sfnt/sfnt.c -- SFNT files support (TrueType & OpenType) src/cff/cff.c -- CFF/OpenType font driver src/psnames/psnames.c -- Postscript glyph names support src/psaux/psaux.c -- Postscript Type 1 parsing src/truetype/truetype.c -- TrueType font driver src/type1/type1.c -- Type 1 font driver src/cid/type1cid.c -- Type 1 CID-keyed font driver src/winfonts/winfonts.c -- Windows FONT / FNT font driver Note: `truetype.c' needs `sfnt.c' and `psnames.c' `type1.c' needs `psaux.c' and `psnames.c' `type1cid.c' needs `psaux.c' and `psnames.c' `cff.c' needs `sfnt.c', `psaux.c', and `psnames.c' etc. --- end of INSTALL --