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diff --git a/freetype/docs/INSTALL.GNU b/freetype/docs/INSTALL.GNU index 72df50a4e..3b9e0a2df 100644 --- a/freetype/docs/INSTALL.GNU +++ b/freetype/docs/INSTALL.GNU @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -This document contains instructions how to build the FreeType library -on non-Unix systems with the help of GNU Make. Note that if you are -running Cygwin or MSys in Windows, you should follow the instructions -in the file INSTALL.UNIX instead. +This document contains instructions how to build the FreeType library +on non-Unix systems with the help of GNU Make. Note that if you are +running Cygwin or MinGW/MSYS in Windows, you should follow the +instructions in the file `INSTALL.UNIX' instead. FreeType 2 includes a powerful and flexible build system that allows @@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ in the file INSTALL.UNIX instead. The following settings are used: - platform win32 + platform windows compiler gcc - configuration directory .\builds\win32 - configuration rules .\builds\win32\w32-gcc.mk + configuration directory .\builds\windows + configuration rules .\builds\windows\w32-gcc.mk If this does not correspond to your system or settings please remove the file 'config.mk' from this directory then read the @@ -138,15 +138,17 @@ in the file INSTALL.UNIX instead. Final note - The build system builds a statically linked library of the font - engine in the `objs' directory. It does _not_ support the build - of DLLs on Windows and OS/2. If you need these, you have to - either use an IDE-specific project file, or follow the + The above instructions build a _statically_ linked library of the + font engine in the `objs' directory. On Windows, you can build a + DLL either with MinGW (within an MSYS shell, following the + instructions in `INSTALL.UNIX'), or you use one of the Visual C++ + project files; see the subdirectories of `builds/windows'. For + everything else, you are on your own, and you might follow the instructions in `INSTALL.ANY' to create your own Makefiles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 by +Copyright 2003-2006, 2008, 2013, 2014 by David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg. This file is part of the FreeType project, and may only be used, |