Re: [Plib-users] Compiling for windows

[Eric E. <Eri...@fr...>]

Don Lafontaine wrote:
> 
> Cool,  I'll try to whip a few up.
> 
> I'm thinking of replacing "glf" fonts with plib fonts.  I hope to get a
> little more speed out of my project.  It uses text pretty heavily compared
> to the average OpenGL program.

I found that PLIB fonts looked blurry with my voodoo 2 and gltt bitmap fonts
too slow, so for TORCS I use glf fonts.
It is (IMHO) the same principle than PLIB fonts, so don't expect any speed
benefits from PLIB fonts (with all the respect due to PLIB).
The other advantage of glf over PLIB is that the 'texture' is done with a true type
font an not an X11 one.
One problem is that the glf 'texture' generator is not freeware and it runs only under
Win32 (but the lib is freeware).

> 
> http://www.avsim.com/hangar/utils/freefd
> 
> Don.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Baker" <sjb...@ai...>
> To: <pli...@li...>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 12:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [Plib-users] Compiling for windows
> 
> > > Don Lafontaine wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,  has anyone managed to compile with MSVC6.0?
> >
> > Yes - quite a few people use it routinely under MSVC 6.
> >
> > > I tried to load the projects,  but they are invalid.
> >
> > They tend to get out of date because when Linux people
> > work on PLIB they have no way to keep the MSVC project
> > files up to date.
> >
> > > Does anyone have project files that work?
> >
> > I'm sure they do...if not, it shouldn't be hard
> > to remake them.  Each directory in 'src' is an independent
> > library - just compile everything in that directory
> > and link it all together.
> >
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