> I've been building freetype on MinGW with msys. I just upgraded my
> freetype build script from freetype-2.5.0.1 to freetype-2.5.3. I
> noticed some minor differences in the build including a new
> freetype-config.1. However, there was one important difference
> between 2.5.0.1 and 2.5.3. Using the same commands, the prior
> version generated a .dll file (it created both libfreetype-6.dll and
> libfreetype.dll.a). The current version only generates the static
> library.
Sorry, I have no idea what is causing that. Please contact the MinGW
list and ask for assistance, CCing me.
> I tried adding --enable-shared to the configure options, but the
> results were the same. Do I need to do something special to
> generate a dll file with version 2.5.3?
No, it should work out of the box. Maybe a problem with the autoconf
tools – have you tried to compile and install the newest versions of
autoconf and libtool? What msys provides by default is quite old.
Werner
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