Re: [Gltt-devel] gltt and SunC++

[Gerard L. <ger...@ya...>]

--- David A Bagley <ba...@tu...> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I maintain xlock and use gltt to compile and link in the text3d mode.
> 
> I always had trouble using CC (SunC++) to build xlock with this mode.
> Building gltt with CC (instead of g++) solves this.  

Many years ago, I had the identical problem with Irix CC vis g++.

Also, the autoconf/libtool was so badly broken on Irix 6.2 that I
just plain bailed out and wrote my own makefile by hand.  Not a
big deal at all.

> Here are the steps
> that
> worked for me (there are probably better ways):
> 
> configure --with-ttf-includes=/usr/openwin/include/freetype
> --with-ttf-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib
>  (I dropped FreeType 1.3.1 in /usr/openwin)
>           change g++ reference in generated Makefile to CC
>           change .la references to .a in Makefile to produce a libgltt.a
>           remove -Wall to get rid of warnings in Makefile
>           change compiler_o_lo="no" for libtool
>           remove -fPIC to get rid of warnings in libtool

So, are you using CC but still using libtool, or are you bypassing
libtool altogether?  Just curious.
 
> I would be interested in a gltt for FreeType 2.0.  I was going to 
> see what was involved in converting but 

You're the second person in the last 3 months to ask about this.

I'm curious myself to know how much work is involved.  From my 
initial browse of the FT 2.0 API, it appears that the new API
is somewhat more simplified than before.  That's good news.
The bad news is that the API is different enough to require
a substantial re-write of GLTT.

Is there some functionality in FT 2.0 that you are particularly
interested in?


Stephane Rehel's coding style leaves much to be desired.  Consider
yourself warned!


> http://www.freetype.org/ always refuses my connections.

Try http://freetype.sourceforge.net/, and follow the link through
to get to http://freetype.sourceforge.net/old_index.html

Those work for me - I just tried them.


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-Gerard


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