[Qt-interest] freetype on Windows

Li Lirong leon.li.lirong at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 03:58:18 CEST 2011


Am I right that I can do this:

1. configure qt on windows without freetype.
2. modify text.pri to use freetype.
3. build

Thanks!

2011/8/2 suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp>:
> Hi,
>
> Please check qt/src/gui/text/text.pri (for 4.7/4.8)
> or qtbase/src/gui/text/text.pri (for 5.0).
>
> You can easily find the difference of which files
> are compiled for win32, and for unix/x11/freetype,
> and others.
>
> If you can replace all methods in the win32-specific
> sources by freetype backend, there is a possibility
> that Qt works with freetype backend.
>
> But, why do you want to use freetype on Win32 platform?
>
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
>
> Li Lirong wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> Can you provide some pointer on how to do this?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
>>> On 08/02/2011 01:33 PM, Li Lirong wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to enable freetype on Windows?  Have anyone tried?
>>> If you mean "enable" through some magic switch, no.  If you mean by
>>> porting the relevant private classes to Windows yourself and modifying
>>> other code accordingly, yes.
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