Re: [Plplot-devel] Freetype support for win32

[Werner S. <sm...@ia...>]

Hi,

Andrew Roach wrote:
> At 08:40 AM 30/08/2006 +0200, you wrote:
>> the problem is, that there is no standard folder for it in Windows, so -
>> in my opinion - the only way is to tell cmake where to find the
>> libraries and headers via environment variables. For example my folder
>> structure looks like this
>>
>> c:\DevZone\plplot
>> c:\DevZone\freetype-2.2.1
>> c:\DevZone\gd
> 
> Agreed. Mine (for example) live in: C:\dev\MinGW\contrib
> 
> How hard would it to be add the default compiler search path ? GCC uses 
> LIBRARY_PATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH, COMPILER_PATH, and CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH for 
> example. I have my "C:\dev\MinGW\contrib" embedded within those paths 
> somewhere, and autotools was always able to find my libraries by searching 
> those variables.

This would also be an option, but I have to admit, that I don't know to 
change the search path for any compiler I work with (except gcc now :). 
So we would need to provide this information for all compilers we 
support. Here it would be better, to just say "set FREETYPELIBDIR..." 
and the rest is done by cmake. I also just read in the INSTALL file, 
that something similar is done on Linux for the ABS.

Regards,
Werner