[mapserver-users] Freetype 1 or Freetype 2 on Redhat 7.2?

[Jim Palma]

Thanks.  Once I knew which Freetype version to use, I just made a symbolic link to
/usr/include/freetype from /usr/include/freetype1/freetype and mapserver compiled
properly.

Jim

Stephen Lime wrote:

> In 3.5, Freetype support is compiled into GD and that's where the MapServer
> looks for it. Freetype 1 is recomended.
>
> In older versions you must use Freetype 1. I thought configure wouldn't even
> look for Freetype 2 so you just have to do --with-ttf=... correctly. Worse case
> is you have to tweak the Makefile by hand.
>
> Steve
>
> Stephen Lime
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> >>> "Jim Palma" <jpalma at donahue.umassp.edu> 11/05/01 11:17AM >>>
> When trying to compile Mapserver 3.3.011 on a RedHat 7.2 system with
> Freetype 2.0.3-7, configure could not find freetype.h.  I searched my
> system and found that I have two freetype.h files, one in
> /usr/include/freetype/freetype1 and one in
> /usr/include/freetype/freetype2.  This was confusing, so I visited the
> freetype web site and found that they distribute what seems like two
> versions of freetype, 1 and 2.  So, which one do I use?  And how do I
> get configure to look there?
> Thanks,
> Jim

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