Freetype on Mac OS X?

David DeHaven david.dehaven at oracle.com
Fri Oct 25 09:20:51 PDT 2013


> You might have managed to build, but there will be some things that do not run
> without freetype.
> 
> You could try using java.awt.Font.createFont(..) with a Postscript Type 1 font - this
> doesn't need a head if you pass in -Djava.awt.headless=true  - and I am 99.999%
> sure you'll get an unsatisfied link error or similar.
> 
> The strictures about freetype on Mac is coming from the X11 install.
> No one could produce a build based on using that which is guaranteed
> to work on any one else's system

The X11 toolkit is no longer built, as of last night:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025673

Now LWCToolkit is used in both headless and headful modes, there are no other native toolkits to choose from.

I'm wondering if there's a code path that is broken now... do we have headless font tests lingering around somewhere?

-DrD-



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