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Freetype modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:16:03 -0000

Freetype modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 03:41:34 -0000

Description

FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well. http://www.freetype.org reveals more information.

Instructions for Mac OS X

PLplot uses either fonts provided by the Free UCS Outline Fonts project (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/) or Windows fonts (Arial, etc.). Both are not installed on Mac OS X by default. You can download the FreeFonts from http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freefont/ and copy the ttf files into the User's Library/Fonts directory. In order cmake can find these fonts, we need to set the PL_FREETYPE_FONT_PATH option, e.g.

cmake -DPL_FREETYPE_FONT_PATH=/Users/smekal/Library/Fonts/ ..

Macports

freetype is also available via Macports. To install the freetype library open the terminal and enter

sudo port install freetype

Instructions for Windows

Download the Freetype library
Unzip the ft237.zip package in a suitable place
Cd into the new directory

MinGW compiler

Then for MinGW (call mingw32.make twice!):

mingw32-make
mingw32-make
copy objs\freetype.a objs\libfreetype.a

Visual C++ compiler

Or for Visual C++ (you need to use GNU-Make not nmake - download it from http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.tar.gz?download or http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm):

path_to_gnu_make\mingw32-make setup visualc
path_to_gnu_make\mingw32-make

For Visual C++ 2005 you need to change line 69 of freetype-2.2.1\builds\compiler\visualc.mk to

CFLAGS ?= /nologo /c /Ox /W3 /WX /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE

Set CMake paths

set environment variables (for MinGW and Visual C++)

set FREETYPEDIR=C:\freetype-2.2.1
set CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=%FREETYPEDIR%\include
set CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=%FREETYPEDIR%\objs

CMake is now able to find the freetype library and headers.

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Freetype modified by Alan W. Irwin

Freetype modified by Alan W. Irwin

Freetype modified by Alan W. Irwin

Description

Instructions for Mac OS X

Macports

Instructions for Windows

MinGW compiler

Visual C++ compiler

Set CMake paths