[mapserver-users] Compiling freetype

[Daniel Morissette]

> klehr1 at tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> 
> Good morning:
> 
> I'm getting the error:   getSymbol(): Symbol definition error.
> (FONT):(118)
> 
> My goal is to get rotating text to work and have downloaded the
> freetype 1.2 library and the gd-1.8.4 library.
> 
> It seems that this version of freetype does not make a libfreetype.a
> file which is needed to make the symbols work in when compiling
> mapserver with gd option.
> 

If the problem was related to the way that your GD was built then you
would get a different error message.

Check line 117 in your mapfile (above the FONT line)... is it an
ANTIALIAS line by any chance?  If it is then change it to "ANTIALIAS
TRUE"

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