RFR: 8222362: Upgrade to Freetype 2.10.0

Erik Joelsson erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Wed Apr 17 13:15:56 UTC 2019


Looks good!

/Erik

On 2019-04-16 16:40, Philip Race wrote:
> freetype 2.10 has been released and this fix upgrades
> the JDK's internal copy from the previous latest of 2.9.1
>
> Bug : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8222362
> Webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~prr/8222362/
> Built on all platforms - tested using --with-freetype=bundled
> Automated regression tests run
> Verified manually with Font2DTest & SwingSet2
> The license is the same - just a version update is needed.
>
> A couple of new build warnings needed to be disabled and
> there was a build problem on Windows, so one change
> in AwtLibraries.gmk is to deal with this error :
>
>
>  > 
> t:\workspace\build\windows-x64\support\native\java.desktop\libfreetype\freetype.lib 
> : fatal error LNK1136: invalid or corrupt file
>  >  Awt2dLibraries.gmk:602: recipe for target 
> '/cygdrive/t/workspace/build/windows-x64/support/modules_libs/java.desktop/fontmanager.dll' 
> failed
>  >  make[3]: *** 
> [/cygdrive/t/workspace/build/windows-x64/support/modules_libs/java.desktop/fontmanager.dll] 
> Error 1
>
> The problem is that freetype.lib is empty (0 bytes)
> I inferred this was because for some reason there was no longer 
> anything being exported.
>
> Hunting sound the source diff I found this :
>
> src/java.desktop/share/native/libfreetype/include/freetype/config/ftconfig.h.udiff.html 
>
>
> -#if defined( _WIN32 )&&  ( defined( _DLL ) || defined( DLL_EXPORT ) )
> +#if defined( _WIN32 )&&  defined( DLL_EXPORT )
> #define FT_EXPORT( x )  __declspec( dllexport )  x
>
>
> Since we were are passing /MD to VC++ cl.exe will define _DLL for us, but
> now freetype no longer looks for it.
>
> This can be tracked back to a change in freetype build so that it 
> relies on
> an explicit define of DLL_EXPORT set up in the vcxproj file.
> The comment as to why is below although I don't really understand if 
> the reference
> to static builds is meant to be a justification. My best guess is that 
> they
> are trying to say that even if _DLL is defined sometimes you maybe 
> don't want/ need to
> exports ymbols so we are now going to make you say so explicitly using 
> DLL_EXPORT.
>
> >We no longer use predefined _DLL, which can be defined for static 
> builds too with /MD.
> >We use DLL_EXPORT and DLL_IMPORT instead, following libtool convention.
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/builds/windows/vc2010/freetype.vcxproj?id=4b97ab98a8e90ae5403058b73c345974247bf01e 
>
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/include/freetype/config/ftconfig.h?id=4b97ab98a8e90ae5403058b73c345974247bf01e 
>
> ----
>
> So my fix is to add the same manual define to our build as used by 
> freetype.
>
> -phil.



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