Freetype PHP Windows, How to compile

Project homepage: freetype.org

All prebuilt libraries are available in the php-libs repositories

For PHP suitable sources and up-to-date information see https://github.com/winlibs/freetype

The filename format is:

freetype-x.y.z-vcversion.zip

where x.y.z defines the version, vcversion which Visual C++ has been used.

Only the static libraries are built for now. We may add DLLs later but PHP is linked statically against Freetype.

The libraries are named as follow:

freetype{buildtype}{_debug}.lib

{buildtype} can be either MT, ST or empty. MT stands for Multithreaded, ST for Singlethreaded and empty is the default mode (non MT). As in all other libraries, we add the “_debug” postfix for the debug builds.

• Freetype sources Src repositories
• Common tools to compile PHP

Edit the file “Jamfile” in the root of the Freetype source directory. Change the line 57 from:

# Name of final library, without extension.
#
FT2_LIB ?= $(LIBPREFIX)freetype ;

to

# Name of final library, without extension.
#
FT2_LIB ?= $(LIBPREFIX)freetype_a ;

Tell Jam to use Visual C++:

cd  C:\php-sdk\2k5\x86\libs_buildlibs\freetype-2.3.7
set JAM_TOOLSET=VISUALC

Open a Platform SDK development console (vc6), or the Visual Studio command line (vc7/8/9) and run:

jam

The objs directory will contain the static library.

The include directory contains all headers that have to be distributed/installed.