> I need it to compile pygame for python3 which needs freetype2 >=2.0
Where does this dependency version number come from? Note that FreeType 2.0 has been released almost 19 years ago. > Pygame building fails because pkg-config freetype2 --modversion > gives 19.0.13, and not pkg-config freetype2 --modversion >=2.0 as I > expected > > Why the version 19.0.13? With pkg-config, asking for FreeType 2.0 doesn't make sense at all. Simplified, `--modversion' returns the DLL version; the more recent version numbers are listed in file `docs/VERSION.TXT' of the FreeType tarball. A new FreeType version does not automatically imply a new DLL version. Let's assume that a big part of the documentation is missing in FreeType 12345.0 (DLL version 678.0), necessitating an immediate new release version 12345.1. However, in the new package there isn't a single code change; this means that the DLL version stays at version 678.0. Werner _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
