Hi all, I did a search for this, but drew a blank. I was wondering if anyone has tried embedding FreeType into a bare-iron firmware image (using newlib and FreeRTOS in my case)?
This is a pet project I'm working, so I'm not working to a deadline. I have here three STM32F103-based development boards (72MHz ARM Cortex-M3). The microcontrollers themselves have 64kB RAM, 512kB flash, and the boards incoroporate a 320x240 pixel LCD panel, capable of 18-bit colour (6-bits/channel). The device also has a 2GB MicroSD card installed. The plan is to make a multi-function device that, amongst other things, will hopefully be obtaining a GPS location and plotting that on a map. I've managed to write some code that takes a fixed-width bitmap font and draws that on the screen, but I was curious to see if I could achieve something reasonable using FreeType. Two reasons; - Wide variety of good quality scalable fonts available - Text could be anti-aliased for better clarity I can get FreeType to build just fine (for arm-none-eabi CHOST), and it even links into the project, but the moment I try to initialise the library I get error 64 from FT_Init_FreeType, which best I can determine is an "out of memory" error. How would I best trace where the failed malloc is happening? Alternatively, do people know of a suitable open-source project that would provide suitable functionality? Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
