Re: freetype, and building on windows

From: Rene Brun <brun_at_pcroot.cern.ch>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:40:49 +0200 (MEST)


Hi Gordon,

Do not use nmake, but make as provided by cygwin.

Rene Brun

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005,
Gordon Watts wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been trying to build the most recent version of root on my
> Windows PC. It seems the freetype.mak and freetype.dep files have UNIX
> line endings in them instead of the DOS ones -- nmake fails outright on
> line one (I think it ends up thinking of the whole file as a single
> line). Unfortunately, most windows tools are now good enough to
> automatically deal with the difference between the two line endings and
> so it took me a while to figure out what was going on!
>
> Cheers,
> Gordon.
>
>
>
Received on Wed Jun 22 2005 - 09:40:54 MEST

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