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From: John M McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: September 13, 2008 11:28:56 AM CEDT
To: Stéphane Ducasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Igor Stasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Rueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Re: Building VM Freetype
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Ok, first we statically loaded any *.dll into the freetype plugin
because we found earlier versions of os-x didn't have
the required version of freetype needed to support what we were
doing, also it was a complete mess on the linux side
with regard to what you would find there if you dynamically loaded
the plugin.
the freetype plugin source code I have was loaded from
http://source.impara.de/freetype
I see the FT2Constants seems to be shared between the freetype base
package and the plugin package, so it appears you
need to load the base in order for the plugin to load. I'm not sure
anyone noticed this since you need to load the base in order
to test the plugin in any case.
On Sep 13, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
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Date: September 13, 2008 8:24:36 AM CEDT
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Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Re: Building VM Freetype
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2008/9/13 Stéphane Ducasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I hope other will answer but I thought that we could have a pluggin
and bundle in the deployed packages.
The idea for pharo is to have a similar setup than seaside a one
click app
so the
vm and its plugin would be there (but may be the plugin should
not be in the
image).
Plugin is built-in in the VM. But freetype library is coming as
separate dynamic library.
Is this ok?
There can be another option, but it would require to change the
plugin
code - to not link VM with import lib, but to load freetype.dll on
demand. The plugin can simply check if this .dll available and start
using it, or if not - fail to initialize, telling the system that
plugin functionality is not available.
Mike or john? On sophie how did you manage that the freetype
bundle could
not be present?
Actually, to build a plugin, you need just headers + freetype.def
file
which then can be used to
create the imports library from it.
Building a freetype.dll can be completely separate process.
I can remove dependency from freetype.lib, and leave only a
freetype.def and create import lib by own, when making VM.
But this is not safe, because now you must guarantee that you using
correct .dll. (well, you need to guarantee it in either case).
If I remember correctly some people on squeak have been
recompiling it for
64 bits
I done with it.
The resulting VM will not start without freetype.dll.
Should i link it statically? But then you should hone their
license
stuff...
Also, building freetype on windoze impossible using gnutools which
used for building VM.
It's make simply can't understand some things, which i assume
appear
in later make versions.
So, i building freetype using my msys/mingw environment, and then
simply producing
- freetype.lib (imports library)
- freetype.dll
or maybe, i wrong, maybe it can be built using gnutools, but this
would require too much voodoo dancing.
it would be cool to make it cleanly build w/o manual work, but
i'm not
high expert in makefiles black voodoo.
Okay, who wants the VM? And where i can put the stuff +
instructions +
blablabla?
You can use the code google page for that.
Stef
2008/9/12 Igor Stasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
2008/9/12 Igor Stasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
As always, things not working out of the box.
- VM builds from unzipped VM sources OK
- but for building with VMMaker generated sources, had to fix
'gnuify'
file to make a clean build
i dreaming to build vm straight from squeak, without horrid
makefiles.
I heard that Keith did a 'Bob' tool which can be used as a
kind of
make utility.
But i think, to fully replace makefiles, it needs an
OSProcessPlugin
to be able to interact with OS/shell.
Next step, tried to load freetype plugin....
http://source.impara.de/freetype/Freetype-Plugin-JMM.53.mcz
http://source.impara.de/freetype/Freetype-Plugin-tween.51.mcz
and guess what? YES! It can't be loaded! :)
MC complains about following:
This package depends on the following classes:
FT2Constants
The FT2Constants is the pool dictionary used by plugin. But not
defined within package.
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