[PyOpenGL-Users] Recommendations for font rendering

[Derakon <de...@gm...>]

I'm searching for a decent approach to font rendering for my game
project. Apparently this is a big deal! Ideally I'd like something
that:

a) Is cross-platform, and
b) Can load fonts in a standard format (precludes GLUT's stroke- and
bitmap-fonts)

I found PyFTGL, but I cannot for the life of me get it to build on my
target platform (OSX)*, and if I can't then I doubt any potential
future collaborators could either. I can't find any other solutions;
am I going to have to make my own homebrew textured-quads-based
approach (or make my own FTGL bindings)? Text rendering seems like
such a basic part of game development that I'm amazed there aren't
more general-purpose libraries available...

* It doesn't know to use frameworks instead of searching directly for
the OpenGL libraries. It can't find my Boost libraries, which are
installed in a standard location. Hacking together my own build
invocation doesn't seem to generate usable files for some reason. I'd
give more details but frankly I spent two very painful evenings on it
several weeks ago and only now am able to return to this hobby for a
bit...I suspect the memories may be repressed.

-Chris