Re: [Freetype-devel] Compiling old version (2.6.5) of FreeType

[suzuki toshiya]

Hi,

Please try the released tarball of 2.6.5, instead of the git snapshot. If you 
really really want to try the git snapshot for 2.6.5, you should gather the 
versions when 2.6.5 was developed. According to 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/blob/VER-2-6-5/autogen.sh , 
automake 1.10.1, libtool 2.2.4 and autoconf 2.62. Although I don't have a nice 
crystal ball, I guess your autoconf is too new to handle the files written for 
2.62.

Regards,
mpsuzuki

On 2022/09/01 16:55, Anurag Thakur wrote:
> Hello Werner, Alexei
>
> I tried compiling FreeType version 2.6.5 to benchmark it against the current 
> `master`, but faced some issues since it is a pretty old version.
>
> I checked out the VER-2-6-5 tag on the repo and ran autogen.sh, which resulted 
> in:
>
>
> generating `configure.ac'
> running `aclocal -I . --force'
> running `libtoolize --force --copy --install'
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
> libtoolize: copying file './config.guess'
> libtoolize: copying file './config.sub'
> libtoolize: copying file './install-sh'
> libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: Consider adding 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])' to configure.ac,
> libtoolize: and rerunning libtoolize and aclocal.
> libtoolize: Consider adding '-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
> running `autoconf --force'
> configure.ac:99: warning: The macro `AC_HEADER_STDC' is obsolete.
> configure.ac:99: You should run autoupdate.
> ./lib/autoconf/headers.m4:704: AC_HEADER_STDC is expanded from...
> configure.ac:99: the top level
>
>
> Simply running configure and make seemed to work but then there were 
> compilation errors in freetype-demos.
>
> I tried checking out a ~2016 commit but couldn't really get it to compile.
>
>
> Version 2.6.5 is important because the original font-rs post is from 2016, 
> which used 2.6.5 as the benchmark for comparison.
>
> The aim is to run FreeType 2.6.5 for benchmarking. Any help regarding this 
> would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Anurag