Re: [ft-devel] FT_UINT_TO_POINTER & other problems with cross-compile for win64

[Werner LEMBERG]

> It seems that your solution to 
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?50560
> is simply wrong - it turns a warning into a complete failure :-).

Thanks for testing!  I've applied your patch.

> I am not sure if __int64 is specific to mingw-gcc or would it breaks
> compiling with visual studio; but here are the changes that works
> for me.

Accorting to MSDN, `__int64' exists down to VS.NET 2003, so I don't
see a problem.

> Also on another win64 issue - I am looking at another interesting
> patch for streaming in memory for FontVal (for windows). Somebody
> wanted this done, because, as you know, long is still only 32-bit on
> win64:

This I will delay until the next FreeType release, since...

> +++ include/freetype/ftsystem.h       2017-05-07 20:17:21.707763600 +0200
> @@ -330,8 +330,13 @@ FT_BEGIN_HEADER
>    typedef struct  FT_StreamRec_
>    {
>      unsigned char*       base;
> +#if _WIN64
> +    unsigned __int64     size;
> +    unsigned __int64     pos;
> +#else
>      unsigned long        size;
>      unsigned long        pos;
> +#endif
>  
>      FT_StreamDesc        descriptor;
>      FT_StreamDesc        pathname;

... I'm not happy about `#if' in ftsystem.h – this should be hidden in
the configuration header, defining a proper type.  Can you work on
that?


    Werner