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Building freetype2 on Windows #devnotes
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Purpose

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

Get the freetype source code

Updating the Freetype Visual Studio solution settings

The default Windows building VS solution is "/builds/windows/vc2010/freetype.sln" (I built it via Visual Studio 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 freetype

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

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