Re: [ft-devel] FreeType patches to support amalgamation

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Dmitry Timoshkov <address@hidden> wrote:
> Vinnie <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> > How about providing a single precompiled library file for these people?
>>
>> That would only work for one particular build environment, and within that
>> environment, only one target. For example, debug, or release. Or 32 bit 
>> versus
>> 64 bit. If the resulting FreeType library were misused, the absence of 
>> sources
>> would complicate debugging.
>
> That's true that compiling something slightly more complex than "Hello World!"
> requires some efforts.
>

Even "Hello World!" usually uses msvcrt.dll or whatever.