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Building freetype2 on Windows #devnotes

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Purpose

Building the freetype DLL & LIB Windows 32 version for the Windows OpenJDK Compiling.

Get the freetype source code

Download it from https://www.freetype.org/
Or sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/
freetype-2.3.5 at least

Updating the Freetype VS solution settings

The default Windows building VS solution is "/builds/windows/vc2010/freetype.sln" (I built it via VS 2015)
The default VS solution and source code are created for static library. We need update below 2 items for change it to .DLL:

The project config and the General tab, change configuration type to "Dynamic Library (.dll)".
NOTES: Select your configuration to "Release Multithread" + "Windows 32" first. The default freetype Windows code is created for static library. We need change the dll export declare macro in the .h file.
For freetype-2.3.5: The file is "ftconfig.h". Below items need to update: *** Change FT_EXPORT to #define FT_EXPORT(x) __declspec(dllexport) x *** Change FT_BASE to #define FT_BASE(x) __declspec(dllexport) x

Building the freetypes

Select the "Release Multithread" + "Windows 32" configuration and build it.
The default output folder is "/objs/win32/vc2010"

Reference

Compiling FreeType to DLL (as opposed to static library)

dafienko commented Sep 16, 2020

thank

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