Re: [ft-devel] Time for a new FreeType release

[Vincent Torri]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Nikolaus Waxweiler <address@hidden> wrote:
> Because meson is younger than the other build systems ;)

well, some big projects are already using meson. Like gstreamer.

> I'd prefer
> the entire open source ecosystem to switch to meson, but oh well ;)
> CMake is the next best thing.
>
> Use `-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_x=TRUE` to disable searching for a
> package entirely (x is the CMake package name, so "BZip2" instead of
> "BZIP2"). Try `-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_HarfBuzz=TRUE`

cmake -G Ninja -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_HarfBuzz=TRUE
-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_BZip2=TRUE .. && cmake --build . --config
Release

is working (i do not have bzip2)

> Actually, I'm in the process of cleaning up the CMake build, can you
> try compiling my
> https://github.com/madig/freetype2/tree/modernize-cmake-build branch?

same command than above, i get the DLL

Vincent Torri