[mapserver-users] building gd-1.8.4 with freetype 2 under windows

[David Armstrong]

Building gd-1.8.4 under windows with freetype 2

I have noticed a few people on the list.saying that although they have built
mapserver without errors being reported that it appears that the freetype2
option is not working , so i thought i would dig deep !!!

my findings are that this assumption may be correct ,
adding   have_libfreetype flag  to the makefile appears not to carry across
to gd
i found by running the gdtesttf.exe & gdtestft.exe do indeed not have the
freetype library.

by forcing the result by adding :-

#define HAVE_LIBFREETYPE

to GD.H
produced the correct results

has anyone come across this or can confirm my outcome etc
or even a fix !
so i am still looking at producing the correct makefile result

Regards to All
David