Re: [ft-devel] impossble trouble installing free type on Vis C++

[Patrick Spendrin]

mikau16 schrieb:
> Hehe, well I appreciate the 'make sure your computer is plugged in'
> suggestion, because lets face it, it often works. But no. Here is a copy
> paste from the path i included:
>
> C:\Program Files\FreeType\lib
>
> and here's a copy paste from the location of the library file:
>
> C:\Program Files\FreeType\lib 
>
> PLUS! I'm not sure about the amount of linkage needed for this program but,
> the following succesfully compiles and links for me. Note how it contains
> data types from the freetype library. If this works, it should be finding
> SOME stuff in the library file, right?
>
> int
> main( int     argc,
>       char**  argv )
> {
>   FT_Library    library;
>   FT_Face       face;
>
>   FT_GlyphSlot  slot;
>   FT_Matrix     matrix;                 /* transformation matrix */
>   FT_Vector     pen;                    /* untransformed origin  */
>   FT_Error      error;
>
>   return 0;
> }
>
>
> DingLi(丁力) wrote:
> > Maybe your path for the lib is not right~~~
> >
> > Please check it.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
> > mikau16
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:46 AM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [ft-devel] impossble trouble installing free type on Vis C++
> >
> >
> > I seem entirely incapable of successfully installing freetype 2 on my
> > system.
> > I'm currently trying to install it on my Visual C++ 9.0 Express Edition
> > compiler. There was a very clear and straight forward walk-through here:
> > http://libagar.org/docs/compile-msvc.html.en for how to do it using two
> > different methods. I've tried both, and I've also tried installing it on
> > other compilers. 
> >
> > After installing, i try to compile and link this program, which I obtained
> > here: http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step1.html
> >
> > here is the complete program:
[snip]
having had a short look it seems like all linkage to functions does not 
work - data types behave different as they might be completely defined 
in the headers.
> > Linking always fails. Here's the message I get in return:
> >
> >
> > ------ Build started: Project: freetypebin, Configuration: Debug Win32
> > ------
> > Linking...
[snip]
> > I've been wanting to install freetype for use with Font drawing in OpenGL,
> > which i'm presently learning, but I've spent weeks trying to get it to
> > work,
> > without success. 
If you just want to install and use freetype, we have built a freetype 
package to suit our compilers which included Visual Studio EE (2k5 which 
is compatible to 2k8).
http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/repository/win32libs/freetype-msvc-2.3.5-2-bin.tar.bz2 

and
http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/repository/win32libs/freetype-msvc-2.3.5-2-lib.tar.bz2
(I might update them sooner or later to a more recent version).
> > and yes, I've included the path to the library file in my project settings
> > and all that.

The only other thing I could think of is that you're missing the import 
library for freetype.dll (freetype.lib)
somehow.

regards,
Patrick
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