[Qt-interest] freetype on Windows

[Li Lirong]

I am using mingw32-make on Windows.  I think the building process
should be like on unix system.

2011/8/3 suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp>:
> What I wrote is not the way that one can achieve it,
> it is the way that one can know what should be prepared
> for first.
>
> The order of 1 & 2 is slightly questionable. If I use
> Unix like building, the update of text.pri may cause
> rebuilding of the related project, but I'm not sure in
> other building process (on Win32). Are you familiar
> with Qt building system for Win32?
>
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
>
> Li Lirong wrote:
>> 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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