Description ----------- FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well. reveals more information. Instructions for Mac OS X ------------------------- PLplot uses either fonts provided by the Free UCS Outline Fonts project (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/) or Windows fonts (Arial, etc.). Both are not installed on Mac OS X by default. You can download the FreeFonts from and copy the ttf files into the User's Library/Fonts directory. In order cmake can find these fonts, we need to set the PL_FREETYPE_FONT_PATH option, e.g. `cmake -DPL_FREETYPE_FONT_PATH=/Users/smekal/Library/Fonts/ ..` ### Macports freetype is also available via Macports. To install the freetype library open the terminal and enter `sudo port install freetype` Instructions for Windows ------------------------ - Download the [Freetype library](http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/ft237.zip) - Unzip the ft237.zip package in a suitable place - Cd into the new directory ### MinGW compiler - Then for MinGW (call mingw32.make twice!): `mingw32-make` `mingw32-make` `copy objs\freetype.a objs\libfreetype.a` ### Visual C++ compiler - Or for Visual C++ (you need to use GNU-Make not nmake - download it from or ): `path_to_gnu_make\mingw32-make setup visualc` `path_to_gnu_make\mingw32-make` - For Visual C++ 2005 you need to change line 69 of freetype-2.2.1\\builds\\compiler\\visualc.mk to ` CFLAGS ?= /nologo /c /Ox /W3 /WX /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE` ### Set CMake paths - set environment variables (for MinGW and Visual C++) `set FREETYPEDIR=C:\freetype-2.2.1` `set CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=%FREETYPEDIR%\include` `set CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=%FREETYPEDIR%\objs` CMake is now able to find the freetype library and headers. The content of this page is available under the [GNU Free Documentation License 1.2](http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html).