Hi Werner, may I ask about reasons of using static Qt libraries on windows? Or maybe I have misunderstood you totally?
regards 2012/2/4 Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>: > > Folks, > > > it took me a whole week of intensive documentation reading and > compilation experiments, asking on various mailing list, etc., etc., > to eventually find out that I need two binaries on Windows, one for > the console and one for the GUI. For consistency I've decided to > create two binaries for all platform. > > Sigh. It's simply not possible to make a Windows program behave the > same way as a POSIX one. I haven't believed it, now I know :-| Well, > I'm an absolute beginner w.r.t. to Windows programming... > > After building from the current git there is now a `ttfautohint' and > `ttfautohintGUI' binary. It compiles nicely on Windows also; I've > successfully used MinGW (but please check the `INSTALL.git' file for > more details). The only drawback of creating a static GUI binary on > Windows is its size: Due to the Qt libraries it's about 8MByte > (compared to 150kByte on GNU/Linux using Qt DLLs). > > I invite the adventurous user to compile and test! If everything > works fine, I'll release a new version in a few days. > > > Werner > > _______________________________________________ > Freetype mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
