[Freetype] Freetype Compile Problems under WinXP and MSVC++ 6

[Pavel Studený]

I've also run across this problem.
It happens when the ends of lines are just LF. When I changed them to CR LF,
the problem disappeared.

Pavel Studeny


> I am trying to compile Freetype2 using MSVC++ 6.0, so I tried to open
> the fretype.dsw workspace file that is provided in the
> 'freetype-2.1.5.tar.gz' file obtainable from the Freetype2 webpage. Upon
> opening VC++ just seems to ignore it, there are no contents displayed
> hence I cannot compile the lib files. I created a new workspace and
> attempted to load the .dsp project file, MSVC++ states that a new
> project file needs to be created from a makefile... basically I'm
> confused :S.

> Forgive my ognorance or if this has been overed elsewhere but can
> someone please step me through the correct process to compiling
> Freetype2 for win32, including the files I require from the website
> etc...

> This would be a big help,
> Andrew Murray