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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon ubawurinna

MinGW Compiler bins?

Open aqilc opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

I want to compile my program with MinGW, but am unable to do so because the MSVC .lib formats are incompatible with GNU. If you could provide ones compiled with MinGW or CYGwin, that'd be amazing!!!

aqilc avatar Jul 07 '22 05:07 aqilc

It is not clear from your report if you use static lib or dynamic lib+dll. In the latter case, try using dll directly on the command line.

apodtele avatar Aug 09 '22 17:08 apodtele

I needed static libs, sorry.

aqilc avatar Aug 09 '22 19:08 aqilc

Is there any way you could do this? All that is needed is for you to compile Freetype using MinGW binaries hosted at https://winlibs.com/ or any other source. VS and MinGW .lib (static lib) files are different and incompatible, so I think this would be appreciated.

aqilc avatar Feb 10 '23 05:02 aqilc

Have you seen https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-freetype? It is a part of the msys2 distribution, which is somehow different from WinLibs. I am sure you can work with them to have a windows native build too. Of course, there is also option to build FreeType yourself with WinLibs community help.

Basically, you are asking wrong people here. You should redirect your inquiries.

apodtele avatar Feb 10 '23 14:02 apodtele

Ok thank you! This was just the unofficial repo for Freetype Windows Builds so I thought it would be a fit request here.

I don't really think there's a WinLibs community either, but I'll try. Thanks again for the guidance!

aqilc avatar Feb 11 '23 19:02 aqilc