Ian Pilcher ian.pilcher@home.com writes:
Did you read somewhere that they're getting rid of freetype.h?
I've looked at 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
In 2.0.1, the header macros are defined in freetype/config/ftbuild.h, which is included in freetype/freetype.h.
In 2.0.2, the header macros are defined in ft2build.h, which is included in freetype/freetype.h.
So as long as they keep freetype/freetype.h around, we can include that and get the macro definitions.
The page at http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step1.html says that you have to include ft2build.h and use macros to include freetype.h, and that other inclusion schemes will get broken in 2.1. I have no idea if this page is up-to-date or if the recommendations have changed again.
We still have to test which macros are defined and only include the ones that exist, but it does save the work of adding extra autoconf checks.
Except with the autoconf checks we control what macros are being defined, we don't have to guess which file to include to get the proper macros. Frankly this idea of defining macros to specify include file names is hopelessly brain-damaged, and the less we have to do with that the happier I will be.
Alexandre Julliard wrote:
The page at http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step1.html says that you have to include ft2build.h and use macros to include freetype.h, and that other inclusion schemes will get broken in 2.1. I have no idea if this page is up-to-date or if the recommendations have changed again.
Aargh! It seems we're stuck with autoconf checks then. (I'm starting to wish I'd pushed harder for my "TTFM file" idea.)
Except with the autoconf checks we control what macros are being defined, we don't have to guess which file to include to get the proper macros. Frankly this idea of defining macros to specify include file names is hopelessly brain-damaged, and the less we have to do with that the happier I will be.
I certainly agree with you on this. If they can't even keep source compatibility between 2.0.x versions, I fail to see what benefit the whole scheme has.
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