Theorian » Software Development http://theorian.com Technological Fusion Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:20:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to compile freetype2 for the iPhone http://theorian.com/2009/08/how-to-compile-freetype2-for-the-iphone/ http://theorian.com/2009/08/how-to-compile-freetype2-for-the-iphone/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:32:18 +0000 Theorian http://theorian.com/?p=102 these openFramework zips]]> This is a quick howto which will help you compile freetype2 for you to use in your iPhone/iTouch app or game. But first you should know that you can find the freetype2 libraries pre-compiled for the iPhone and iPhone simulators within in these openFramework zips. We use this in our iPhone game NanoMechs

But if you’d still like to compile your own, we want to get the latest freetype src:

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curl -O http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/savannah/freetype/freetype-2.3.9.tar.bz2
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Next go ahead and unzip, you could always leave the archive there just in case:

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tar -jxvf freetype-2.3.9.tar.bz2
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Now use your favorite text editor and jump into include/freetype/config/ftconfig.h and . then find and change the “asm” to “__asm__” in each file. You can do this in nano:

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nano freetype-2.3.9/include/freetype/config/ftconfig.h
nano freetype-2.3.9/builds/unix/ftconfig.in
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Press CTRL-W type ‘asm’ and press ENTER
wrap ‘asm’ with 2 underscores on both sides so it looks like this:

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__asm__
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Press CTRL-X press ‘y’ for yes then press ENTER to save the file.
Jump into the freetype directory:

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cd freetype-2.3.9
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Run this configure command:

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./configure --prefix=/usr/local/iphone --host=arm-apple-darwin --enable-static=yes --enable-shared=no CC=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/arm-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 CFLAGS="-arch armv6 -pipe -mdynamic-no-pic -std=c99 -Wno-trigraphs -fpascal-strings -fasm-blocks -O0 -Wreturn-type -Wunused-variable -fmessage-length=0 -fvisibility=hidden -miphoneos-version-min=2.0 -gdwarf-2 -mthumb -I/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS2.0.sdk/usr/include/libxml2 -isysroot /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS2.0.sdk" CPP=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/cpp AR=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/ar LDFLAGS="-arch armv6 -isysroot /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS2.0.sdk -Wl,-dead_strip -miphoneos-version-min=2.0"
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Then just run make

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make
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Your new library for the iPhone device will be in:

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freetype-2.3.9/objs/.libs/
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note: This is not for the simulator and you will still need to get this into Xcode I’ll post more on this later or update this post.

Here are some related and essential websites on how to compile libraries for the iPhone: Robert Carlsen Compiling Libraries, Robert Carlsen Cross-Compiling and LateNightSoft Programming Tips

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