Re: [Freetype] Freetype 2.1.3 Mac bugs

[Wenlin Institute]

Somebody wrote:
>  > FSPathMakeRef() takes a pascal string (as most, if not all, Mac path
>  > functions do), but a C string is passed to it. So it always fails.

That's not true. FSPathMakeRef() takes a C string, and 
file_spec_from_path() works fine using Project Builder (the Apple IDE 
for the GNU C compiler).

Please don't kill the code for TARGET_API_MAC_CARBON!! It's correct.

It has been pointed out before that ftmac.c has problems with 
Metrowerks CodeWarrior. The issue is not C versus Pascal strings, 
it's the format for pathnames. Project Builder uses UNIX paths, in 
which the directory separator is a forward-slash (/). CodeWarrior 
uses classic Mac paths, in which the directory separator is a colon 
(:). Probably FSPathMakeRef() requires the UNIX format regardless of 
which compiler is used.

To accommodate CodeWarrior, I suggest changing the conditional as follows:

#if TARGET_API_MAC_CARBON && ! defined(__MWERKS__)

I already made this suggestion when the same issue came up back in February.

Tom Bishop

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