Re: [ft] Slim down FreeType2

[Mickey Gabel]

address@hidden wrote:
> Sorry, I don't know good tutorial or easy-to-read source codes
> to understand how to "incorporate" FT2 into other projects.
>
> Does anybody know a simple software that had incorporated FT2
> with its sources? I know only Ghostscript, but old FT1, not FT2,
> and the source is too complex to use as a tutorial.
>
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
>
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:59:43 +0200
> Aya Koshigaya <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > but.. I'd like to slim down the lib to only a few cpp and header  
> > files, so I can include it in my project directly.. I don't want to  
> > create a library that I have to link to.. (because I'd have to compile  
> > this lib for any platform I am developing on)
> >
> > Or else if this is not possible so easy... I have written a TTF-File  
> > reader myself, so I am able to read all the glyph data etc I need,  
> > only thing I am missing is the Rasterizer... so, is it somehow  
> > possible to just take the rasterizer of FreeType? (Would be my  
> > preferred solution btw)

We compile FT2 as part of our own library, with a custom build. It's not 
hard. Just include the relevant files in your compilation. This is 
explained in INSTALL.ANY.
You will also need to edit the configuration .h files in 
include\freetype2\config  (the ftmodule.h, ftoption.h, ftstdlib.h, etc)

Regarding only using the rasterizer, I have no experience with something 
like this, as we use a complete (though minimal) configuration of ft2.

Good luck!