RE: [ft] Freetype and 64bit

[Memory, Richard]

Hi,

Thanks for the info. I'm planning to use Freetype with a smaller 64 bit
os that follows the LP64 model. 

I'm sure you already know this, but just for the sake of completeness,
LP64 means it will use 32 bit ints, 64 bit longs, 64 bit long longs, 64
bit pointers, size_t=64, etc.

So, if I understand you correctly, it appears I can make all necessary
adjustments in the ftconfig.h header file.

Is this correct?

Thanks,

Richard 

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Subject: Re: [ft] Freetype and 64bit

Hi,

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:37:23 -0700
"Memory, Richard" <address@hidden> wrote:
>What is Freetype's situation with respect to 64 bit operating systems?
>Has it been tested/used on a 64 bit system?

Yet I'm not sure what kind of systems you're thinking of,
FreeType2 is already known to run on several amd64 systems:
GNU/Linux on amd64, FreeBSD on amd64, Mac OS X on amd64, etc. Also I'm
sure that FreeType2 was running on Unix-like systems and OpenVMS on
legacy Alpha CPU. 

One of the problem is that bit length of char, int, long (FT_SIZEOF_INT,
FT_SIZEOF_LONG, FT_SIZEOF_CHAR) are statically defined by ftconfig.h.
The file is written for each platforms (Win32, Amiga, VMS, ...), or
statically configured by running configure script when the library is
built. Some people wants single ftconfig.h to switch these values
dynamically (in the other words, they are expected to be defined by the
compilers internal macros like __LP64__ etc). It's my task but not
solved yet, I'm looking for reliable standard...

Regards,
mpsuzuki