Re: gd.trm issue for mingw-gcc-4.3.0 building

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> I have been struggling to build gd libraries for these days.  Today I have succeeded to build
> gd-2.0.36RC1 static library and get rid of the problem of mingw-gcc-4.3.0 building.
> 
> No modification has not been required for gd.trm.
> 
> However it is required to add '-lfontcongfig -liconv' to linker flag in makefile.mgw.
> (This is required regardless gcc version.)
>
> Where is the suitable place to add the flags: '-lfontconfig -liconv' ?

I use an older static version of gd and these flags cannot be used (no 
iconv.a).
 
> Temporary I modified  
> 
> ifdef FREETYPE
>   CFLAGS += -DHAVE_GD_TTF
>   TERMLIBS += -lfreetype
> endif
>  |
>  V
> ifdef FREETYPE
>   CFLAGS += -DHAVE_GD_TTF
>   TERMLIBS += -lfreetype -lfontconfig -liconv
> endif
> 
> But it seem not so good to do it.

Aha, so you need them for your version of freetype, not for gd.
Where do fontconfig.a and iconv.a come from?

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