Re: [ft-devel] FreeType DLL support (Re: Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 156, Issue 12)

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hin-Tak: You don't have to be rude to people. It's ok to be wrong. Stick to the technical point. Thanks.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <address@hidden> wrote:

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On Sat, 13/1/18, Martin Gieseking <address@hidden> wrote:

 > Not really.
 > dllexport/dllimport is platform- and not
 > compiler-specific.
 > GCC and Clang on MinGW
 > also support them to declare the symbols that are
 > supposed to be exported by the DLL and adapt
 > the symbol names
 > accordingly. In order to
 > create/access DLLs through this mechanism
 > across compilers, the declarations should be
 > added independently from
 > the compiler.

You don't know what you are talking about. Do you actually use mingw to build Freetype at all? I do. I have been building Freetype dll very regularly with the mingw toolchain for a couple of years. The Fontval windows backend is a Freetype dll. Does not need those header hacks. Those hacks are only needed for use with Microsoft compilers.

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