RFR: 8222362: Upgrade to Freetype 2.10.0

[Sergey Bylokhov]

+1

On 17/04/2019 06:15, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> 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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Best regards, Sergey.