[Mingw-users] Problems with mingwPORT of FreeType 2.1.9 and configure script.

[Rodrigo H. <kw...@ae...>]

Hello All,

I built and installed FreeType 2.1.9 using the mingwPORT script, it went 
fine,
but when trying to detect the library in my project, the test fails, I 
just added whats in freetype2.m4 to my
acinclude.m4 file, so it should work (worked before for me using a 
static build).
The configure script fails linking the conftest.c file with the 
following output:

configure:17635: checking for FreeType -- version >= 2.1.9
configure:17721: gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -Ic:/MinGW/include/freetype2 
-Ic:/MinGW/include   conftest.c -Lc:/MinGW/lib -Wl,--rpath 
-Wl,c:/MinGW/lib -lfreetype  >&5
c:/winnt/temp/ccMTbaaa.o(.text+0x1f): In function `main':
c:/stuff/glitch/conftest.c:39: undefined reference to `FT_Init_FreeType'
c:/winnt/temp/ccMTbaaa.o(.text+0x37):c:/stuff/glitch/conftest.c:45: 
undefined reference to `FT_Done_FreeType'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:17724: $? = 1
configure: program exited with status 1

 I have checked and the libfreetype-6.dll does contain the functions 
unmangled, the functions apear on the .a files as well, though with a 
"_" prepended (stdcall?), so in theory, it should all work out, but it 
doesnt.

I have taken the conftest.c file out of the output and tried to manually 
compile it, I get the same error, here is conftest.c:

-----------------------------conftest.c--------------------------------
#define PACKAGE_NAME "Glitch"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "glitch"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.1.0"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "Glitch 0.1.0"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "kwizatz@-no-spam-aeongames.com"
#define PACKAGE "glitch"
#define VERSION "0.1.0"
#define STDC_HEADERS 1
#define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
#define HAVE_STRING_H 1
#define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
#define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
#define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
#define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" void std::exit (int) throw (); using std::exit;
#endif
#define SO_EXT ".dll"
/* end confdefs.h.  */
 
 
#include <ft2build.h>
#include FT_FREETYPE_H
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>


int
main()
 {
   FT_Library library;
   FT_Error  error;
 
   error = FT_Init_FreeType(&library);
 
   if (error)
     return 1;
   else
   {
     FT_Done_FreeType(library);
     return 0;
   }
}
-----------------------------conftest.c--------------------------------

The way gcc command to link it is:

gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -Ic:/MinGW/include/freetype2 
-I/MinGW/include   conftest.c -L/MinGW/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/MinGW/lib 
-lfreetype

Am I missing something, or is this a bug.

Oh and I am using GCC: 3.4.2, and the latest automake, autoconf, libtool 
and MSYS snapshot.

Thanks