I suppose configure found a Cygwin-version of freetype (because I don't think there's a pkg-config on Windows) which can not be used for a native Windows build.
Please just follow the instructions. They should be pretty clear (because I wrote them :) If not, please let me know what could be improved. Regards, Volker On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote: > I would suggest you try doing exactly what the error message suggests as > that will most likely work fine. > > /Erik > > > On 2015-11-04 21:03, Naveen Kumar wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I am getting the following error (below) while running configure on >> jdk9 (openjdk) on cygwin on windows7. >> Should I download freetype & build it with VS(2013)? >> If yes, then what are special build instructions. >> If no then how to fix this. >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> *$sh configure --enable-debug** >> *... >> ... >> checking for FREETYPE... yes >> configure: Found freetype using pkg-config, but ignoring since we can not >> bundle that >> configure: error: Could not find freetype! >> The freetype library can now be build during the configure process. >> Download the freetype sources and unpack them into an arbitrary directory: >> >> wget >> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.5.3.tar.gz >> tar -xzf freetype-2.5.3.tar.gz >> >> Then run configure with '--with-freetype-src=<freetype_src>'. This will >> automatically build the freetype library into '<freetype_src>/lib64' for >> 64-bit >> builds or into '<freetype_src>/lib32' for 32-bit builds. >> Afterwards you can always use >> '--with-freetype-include=<freetype_src>/include' >> and '--with-freetype-lib=<freetype_src>/lib32|64' for other builds. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Please help. >> >> regards >> Naveen > >
