building openjdk for windows ,freetype

Igor Nekrestyanov Igor.Nekrestyanov at Sun.COM
Thu Aug 16 07:31:48 UTC 2007


Hi,
>
> freetype is installed by cygwin itself, I downloaded the binary 
> version also and putting that in to the path is not making any 
> difference, is there any specific way to do that?

Freetype from cygwin will not work as is.
It depends too much on other headers/libs from cygwin.

You need to build own copy of freetype.
Try following instruction:
  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2007-August/000187.html

-igor




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