svn trunk error

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Steve,

Personally, I would like to see every mapserver user that has AGG
trouble hassle the AGG list so they get that the have a real problem :) 
but since that is probably not realistic, I think a good tutorial/HowTo 
for building AGG would suffice. Most of my frustration was figuring out 
the magical incantation, any incantation that would work.

Another possiblity would be for someone with some autotools knowledge
to assist the AGG team with getting something that works patched into
their source tree. I spend all day trying and failed :( my autotools-foo 
is weak.

We could add to our ./configure script the mapserver URL to the AGG 
HowTo to avoid the first level of emails to the list.

-Steve W

Steve Lime wrote:
> Do we dare require folks to hack other libs build assets? I'm worried
> about turning folks off of the AGG support simply because it's so
> friggin' hard to get freetype working. Could we detect freetype
> support in AGG and enable it in MapServer, otherwise fall back to the
>  GD font rendering? It's not a terrible alternative and better than
> 100's of emails to MapServer users.
> 
> Steve
> 
>>>> On 8/7/2007 at 11:03 AM, in message
>>>> <46B897C3.2060908 at pobox.com>, Frank
> Warmerdam <warmerdam at POBOX.COM> wrote:
>> Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
>>> 
>>> I added -laggfontfreetype to AGG_LIB (thanks Thomas!) in Makefile
>>> and everything built fine.  Apparently Frank is working on this
>>> one.
>> Tom,
>> 
>> I have updated mapserver to include -laggfreetype in the link.  But
>>  this means that folks building agg themselves from source will be 
>> obligated to create a libaggfreetype.a in their agg-2.4/src
>> directory.
>> 
>> I *think* adding the following target to agg-2.4/src/Makefile, and
>> then invoking "make libs" should do the trick.
>> 
>> libs:	all ../font_freetype/agg_font_freetype.o $(LIB)
>> libaggfreetype.a ../font_freetype/agg_font_freetype.o
>> 
>> Ah yes, you also still need to add `freetype-config --cflags` or
>> equivelent in CXXFLAGS.
>> 
>> Best regards,