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diff --git a/Build/source/libs/freetype2/freetype-src/docs/INSTALL b/Build/source/libs/freetype2/freetype-src/docs/INSTALL index 814fc7bcc91..1952f049d95 100644 --- a/Build/source/libs/freetype2/freetype-src/docs/INSTALL +++ b/Build/source/libs/freetype2/freetype-src/docs/INSTALL @@ -4,10 +4,32 @@ your system and the level of customization you need. Here is a short overview of the documentation available: -I. Normal installation and upgrades -=================================== +I. Prerequisites and dependencies +================================= - 1. Unix Systems (including Mac OS X, Cygwin, and MSys on Windows) + FreeType is a low level C library that only depends on the standard + C library with very few platform-dependent optimizations utilized at + build time. System libraries, such as zlib, Gzip, bzip2, Brotli, + and libpng, might be used to handle compressed fonts or decode + embedded PNG glyphs. + + FreeType auto-configuration scripts should be able to detect the + prerequisites if the necessary headers are available at the default + locations. Otherwise, modify `include/freetype/config/ftoption.h' + to control how the FreeType library gets built. Normally, you don't + need to change anything. + + Applications have very limited control over FreeType's behaviour at + run-time; look at the documentation of function `FT_Property_Set'. + + +II. Normal installation and upgrades +==================================== + + 1. Unix and Unix-like systems + + This also includes MacOS, Cygwin, MinGW + MSYS, Mingw-w64 + MSYS2, + and possibly other, similar environments. Please read `INSTALL.UNIX' to install or upgrade FreeType 2 on a Unix system. Note that you *need* GNU Make for automatic @@ -26,10 +48,11 @@ I. Normal installation and upgrades 3. Other systems using GNU Make - On non-Unix platforms, it is possible to build the library using - GNU Make utility. Note that *NO OTHER MAKE TOOL WILL WORK*[1]! - This methods supports several compilers on Windows, OS/2, and - BeOS, including MinGW, Visual C++, Borland C++, and more. + On some non-Unix platforms, it is possible to build the library + using only the GNU Make utility. Note that *NO OTHER MAKE TOOL + WILL WORK*[1]! This methods supports several compilers on + Windows, OS/2, and BeOS, including MinGW* (without MSYS*), Visual + C++, Borland C++, and more. Instructions are provided in the file `INSTALL.GNU'. @@ -57,8 +80,8 @@ I. Normal installation and upgrades directory. -II. Custom builds of the library -================================ +III. Custom builds of the library +================================= Customizing the compilation of FreeType is easy, and allows you to select only the components of the font engine that you really need. @@ -77,7 +100,7 @@ II. Custom builds of the library ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Copyright (C) 2000-2020 by +Copyright (C) 2000-2021 by David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg. This file is part of the FreeType project, and may only be used, |