[GEM-dev] mac os x - font support

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:28 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> libftgl1 is now included in Fink/unstable, so you just need to  
>> switch  to unstable, then do:
>> fink install libftgl1
>> http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/libftgl1
>
>
> that won't help here, as Gem does no weak linking (or however you  
> call it).
> either it links dynamically to libftgl.so (in which case Gem won't  
> load if the library is not present; upstream this ought to be  
> avoided, as dynamic linkage pulls in dependencies on X11)
> or we link statically against libftgl.a (which makes bigger  
> binaries, but no added dependencies)
> or we forget to link against ftgl alltogether (so we don't have font  
> support).
>
> the binaries i posted ought to be #2 but were #3.
>
> fmasdr
> IOhannes


libftgl.a  is included with the libftgl1 fink package, so you could  
statically link against it.

.hc


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