is it possible to use TrueType fonts with SDL for windows?
if it is possible what should i download (freetype something?)
/andreas
Assuming you’re using mingw32. If not it might be more complicated, but I got this working just recently with Sams help. All you need to do is get the precompiled freetype libraries from:
www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/Xmingw32/
I just threw mine in mingw32s lib folder. You’ll still need to download freetype 1.1 (www.freetype.org) (as far as I know 1.2 does’nt work). You only need the headers from it though. Compile the ttflib demo from the sdl demos to see if it worked.
-Pheonix Kokido: members.xoom.com/kokido
Andreas Karlsson wrote:
is it possible to use TrueType fonts with SDL for windows?
if it is possible what should i download (freetype something?)
/andreas
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Pheonix Kokido wrote:
Assuming you’re using mingw32. If not it might be more complicated, but I got this working just recently with Sams help. All you need to do is get the precompiled freetype libraries from:
www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/Xmingw32/
I just threw mine in mingw32s lib folder. You’ll still need to download freetype 1.1 (www.freetype.org) (as far as I know 1.2 does’nt work). You only need the headers from it though. Compile the ttflib demo from the sdl demos to see if it worked.
-Pheonix Kokido: members.xoom.com/kokido
Andreas Karlsson wrote:
is it possible to use TrueType fonts with SDL for windows?
if it is possible what should i download (freetype something?)
/andreas
-Phoenix Kokido
Hi,
if you grab freetype-1.1-i686-pc-mingw32.tgz from the link above, you?ll get
all the header files you need. just include freetype.h in your sourcefiles.
You will have to pass the path where you extracted the archive to your
compiler and tell your linker to link againt libttf.a
when compiling
"-I /freetype-1.1-i686-pc-mingw32"
when linking
" /freetype-1.1-i686-pc-mingw32/libttf.a"
regards,–
Karsten-O. Laux
klaux at student.uni-kl.de
http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~klaux
UIN 21614933 (Bert)
Hi,
if you grab freetype-1.1-i686-pc-mingw32.tgz from the link above, you?ll get
all the header files you need. just include freetype.h in your sourcefiles.
Oops, yeah freetype.h is probably important. 
Thanks Karsten,
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)