[ft-devel] Gone Redmond

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

Hi guys,

I will be doing some FreeType development on Windows 10 in this
release cycle. It was surprisingly easy to set up the environment. I
only needed two things:
1) Git for Windows, https://git-for-windows.github.io/, which comes
with a bash shell and vi.
2) Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017,
https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2017,
which is a free minimal environment with msbuild and a compiler,
without IDE.

I have managed to build the static library already in this environment
and committed the first round of cleanups in the project file. The
draft plans are:
- drop vc2005 and earlier support altogether as those compilers have
reached their EOL.
- drop wince as well since vc2012 and up supports wince
- drop vc2008 next year
- drop single-threaded configurations deprecated as of 2005
- add dynamic library configuration
- get freetype-demos to build

Comments, wishes?
Alexei