| This document contains instructions on how to build the FreeType library |
| on Unix systems. This also works for emulations like Cygwin or MSys on |
| Win32: |
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| I. Ensure that you are using GNU Make |
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| The FreeType build system _exclusively_ works with GNU Make. You |
| will not be able to compile the library with the instructions |
| below using any other alternative (including BSD Make). |
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| Trying to compile the library with a different Make tool will |
| print a message like: |
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| Sorry, GNU make is required to build FreeType2. |
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| and the build process will be aborted. If this happens, install |
| GNU Make on your system, and use the GNUMAKE environment variable |
| to name it. |
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| IV. Build and install the library |
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| The following should work on all Unix systems where the 'make' |
| command invokes GNU Make: |
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| ./configure --prefix=<yourprefix> |
| make |
| make install (as root) |
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| where "<yourprefix>" must be replaced by the prefix returned by |
| the "freetype-config" command. |
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| When using a different command to invoke GNU Make, use the GNUMAKE |
| variable. For example, if `gmake' is the command to use on your |
| system, do something like: |
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| GNUMAKE=gmake ./configure --prefix=<yourprefix> |
| gmake |
| gmake install (as root) |
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| If this still doesn't work, something's rotten on your system( |
| (e.g. you're using a very old version of GNU Make) |
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| I. Unix systems |
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| If you have GNU Make installed, simply type |
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| ./configure |
| make |
| make install |
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| on the command line to configure, build and install FreeType on your |
| system. Note that the default installation path is "/usr/local". |
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| Please read the file README.UNX, it contains _critical_ information |
| regarding the installation of FreeType on many Unix systems. |
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| II. From the command line |
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| If you are not using Unix, there are two ways to quickly build |
| FreeType 2 from the command line. |
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| The first, and favorite one, is to use the "Jam" build tool. Jam is |
| a highly portable replacement for Make whose control files do not |
| depend on the current platform or compiler toolset. |
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| For more information, please see: |
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| http://www.freetype.org/jam/index.html |
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| The second one is to use "GNU Make" (and NO OTHER MAKE TOOL). |
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| 1. Building FT2 with "Jam" |
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| Once you've got *our version* of the Jam tool installed on your |
| system, simply go to the top-level FT2 directory, then type |
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| "jam" |
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| on the command line. This will build the library and place it in |
| the "objs" directory. |
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| By default, a static library is built. On Unix systems, it is |
| possible to build a shared library through the "libtool" script. |
| You need to have libtool installed on your system, then re-define |
| a few environment variables before invoking Jam, as in |
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| export CC="libtool --mode=compile cc" |
| export LINK="libtool --mode=link cc" |
| jam |
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| In later releases of FT2, building shared libraries with Jam |
| should become automatic on Unix systems. |
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| 2. Building FT2 with "GNU Make" |
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| You need to have GNU Make (version 3.78.1 or newer) installed on |
| your system to compile the library from the command line. This will |
| _NOT_ work with other make tools (including BSD make)! |
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| [Well, this is not really correct. Recently, a perl implementation |
| of make called `makepp' has appeared which can also build FreeType 2 |
| successfully on Unix platforms. See http://makepp.sourceforge.net |
| for more details.] |
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| - Go to the `freetype2' directory. |
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| - Unix (any C compiler should work): |
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| - make setup (don't worry, this will invoke a configure script) |
| - make |
| - make install |
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| Alternatively, you can pass parameters to the configure script |
| within the CFG variable, as in: |
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| - make setup CFG="--prefix=/usr" |
| - make |
| - make install |
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| If the configure script isn't run, try to add `unix' as a target |
| on the command line, e.g.: |
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| - make setup unix CFG="--prefix=/opt/experimental" |
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| - Windows: |
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| We provide a version of GNU Make for Win32 on the FreeType site. |
| See http://www.freetype.org/download.html for details. |
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| - gcc (Mingw, _not_ CygWin): |
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| - make setup |
| - make |
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| - Visual C++: |
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| - make setup visualc |
| - make |
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| - other compilers: |
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| - make setup bcc32 -> Borland C++ 32 bits |
| - make setup intelc -> Intel C++ |
| - make setup watcom -> Watcom C++ |
| - make setup lcc -> Win32-LCC |
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| If you want to build FreeType 2 in another directory, you must set |
| two environment variables, `OJB_DIR' and `TOP_DIR'. The former |
| gives the directory where the object files and the library should be |
| created (this directory must exist), the latter the top directory of |
| the FreeType 2 source tree. Example: |
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| OBJ_DIR=~/freetype2.compiled TOP_DIR=~/freetype2 \ |
| make -f$TOP_DIR/Makefile setup ansi |
| OBJ_DIR=~/freetype2.compiled TOP_DIR=~/freetype2 \ |
| make -f$TOP_DIR/Makefile |
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| On Unix boxes, calling `configure' from the build directory is |
| sufficient; it will build a small Makefile which calls the |
| FreeType 2 Makefile with the necessary parameters. |
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| --- end of INSTALL -- |