[Interest] Configuring Qt's built-in freetype ?

[Marius Kittler]

Hi,

I'm also using Arch and that's how they configured their FreeType2 build: 
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/tree/packages/freetype2/trunk

There are indeed some patches which might be an improvement.

They also build with Harfbuzz support so its configuration might make a 
difference as well:
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/harfbuzz/trunk/
PKGBUILD

I don't know whether you can influence the configuration of the bundled 
FreeType2 without patching. I personally simply configure Qt to use the 
system-provided library.

For instance I also conduct my Windows builds under Arch for which I'm using 
my custom FreeType2 build in form of the `mingw-w64-freetype2` package. I try 
to configure the `mingw-w64-freetype2` package as close as possible to the 
regular `freetype2` package:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mingw-w64-freetype2

I suppose using your own FreeType2 build should work under any build 
environment as long as you install it somewhere Qt can find it.

Note that the runtime configuration might also make a difference.