Re: [ft-devel] freetype under Windows

[Sean McBride]

On 2/17/08 8:04 AM, Werner LEMBERG said:

>> I didn't got ftjam working + the support for ftjam seems to be very
>> small
>
>Yes, David doesn't have time to do something here.  I've been tempted
>to write support for SCons (www.scons.org), however there are so many
>other things that I shall do that I dropped the idea very quickly
>again. :-(
>
>> compared so I decided to use CMake[2].
>
>Just curious: What's the problem with GNU make on Windows?  I'm not a
>Windows user at all...

Using CMake for freetype sounds good to me!  If anyone is curious, the
VTK project uses both CMake and freetype.  It's CMakeLists.txt file is here:

<http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Utilities/vtkfreetype/
CMakeLists.txt?rev=1.9&view=markup>

Also, here is a nice article about why KDE chose CMake:
<http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/>

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