[SOLVED] Best OpenType fonts library?

kweensey · Post by **kweensey** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:54 pm

Hey, everybody,
could you advice me which library is the best (fastest, easiest to use, etc.) for work with OpenType fonts, please?

Thanks.
kweensey

a_noob · Post by **a_noob** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:03 am

well they would require the freetype library, but the best psp front end would most likely be pgeFont, by InsertWittyName.

kweensey · Post by **kweensey** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:58 am

I tried to install freetype library several times (I followed this quide) but I always got some error while executing these lines:

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LDFLAGS="-L$&#40;psp-config --pspsdk-path&#41;/lib -lc -lpspuser" \
./configure --host psp --prefix=$&#40;psp-config --psp-prefix&#41;

I'll reinstall my Cygwin and PSPToolChain and try it again..

Thanks for advice, I'll try pgeFont.. ;)

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:51 am

Check psplibraries out of the repo and run the libraries script. That will build and install most of the major libs, including freetype.

kweensey · Post by **kweensey** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:48 am

@J.F.: Thanks, I'll try it..

EDIT:

I reinstalled cygwin + psptoolchain and ran psplibraries script. Then I tried to compile pgeFont sample. I got these errors:

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kweensey@AcutakeViper ~/projects/pgefont/samples/graphics
$ make
psp-gcc -I. -I/usr/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/include -O2 -G0 -Wall -g -D_PSP_FW_VERSI
ON=150   -c -o fonttest.o fonttest.c
psp-gcc -I. -I/usr/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/include -O2 -G0 -Wall -g -D_PSP_FW_VERSI
ON=150   -c -o graphics.o graphics.c
psp-gcc -I. -I/usr/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/include -O2 -G0 -Wall -g -D_PSP_FW_VERSI
ON=150   -c -o framebuffer.o framebuffer.c
psp-gcc -I. -I/usr/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/include -O2 -G0 -Wall -g -D_PSP_FW_VERSI
ON=150   -c -o ../../pgeFont.o ../../pgeFont.c
In file included from ../../pgeFont.c&#58;24&#58;
/usr/local/pspdev/lib/gcc/psp/4.3.2/../../../../psp/include/ft2build.h&#58;56&#58;38&#58; er
ror&#58; freetype/config/ftheader.h&#58; No such file or directory
../../pgeFont.c&#58;25&#58;10&#58; error&#58; #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
../../pgeFont.c&#58; In function 'pgeFontLoad'&#58;
../../pgeFont.c&#58;102&#58; error&#58; 'FT_Library' undeclared &#40;first use in this function&#41;

../../pgeFont.c&#58;102&#58; error&#58; &#40;Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
../../pgeFont.c&#58;102&#58; error&#58; for each function it appears in.&#41;
../../pgeFont.c&#58;102&#58; error&#58; expected ';' before 'library'
../../pgeFont.c&#58;103&#58; error&#58; 'FT_Face' undeclared &#40;first use in this function&#41;
../../pgeFont.c&#58;103&#58; error&#58; expected ';' before 'face'
../../pgeFont.c&#58;105&#58; warning&#58; implicit declaration of function 'FT_Init_FreeType
'
../../pgeFont.c&#58;105&#58; error&#58; 'library' undeclared &#40;first use in this function&#41;
../../pgeFont.c&#58;108&#58; warning&#58; implicit declaration of function 'FT_New_Face'
../../pgeFont.c&#58;108&#58; error&#58; 'face' undeclared &#40;first use in this function&#41;
../../pgeFont.c&#58;111&#58; error&#58; 'FT_GlyphSlot' undeclared &#40;first use in this functio
n&#41;
../../pgeFont.c&#58;111&#58; error&#58; expected ';' before 'slot'
../../pgeFont.c&#58;132&#58; warning&#58; implicit declaration of function 'FT_Set_Pixel_Siz
es'
../../pgeFont.c&#58;140&#58; warning&#58; implicit declaration of function 'FT_Set_Char_Size
'
../../pgeFont.c&#58;147&#58; error&#58; 'slot' undeclared &#40;first use in this function&#41;
../../pgeFont.c&#58;151&#58; warning&#58; implicit declaration of function 'FT_Load_Char'
../../pgeFont.c&#58;151&#58; error&#58; 'FT_LOAD_RENDER' undeclared &#40;first use in this funct
ion&#41;
../../pgeFont.c&#58;263&#58; warning&#58; implicit declaration of function 'FT_Done_Face'
../../pgeFont.c&#58;264&#58; warning&#58; implicit declaration of function 'FT_Done_FreeType
'
make&#58; *** &#91;../../pgeFont.o&#93; Error 1

Isn't that mean I have not successfully installed freetype library? :( I already thought it would all finally work..

jojojoris · Post by **jojojoris** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 2:20 am

The problem is that the compiler can't find any of the freetype headers.

You can solve this problem by tweaking your include dirs.

You now have:
sdkpath/psp/sdk/include/freetype2/freetype

You have to copy the freetype folder to the include folder so you have

sdkpath/psp/sdk/include/freetype

kweensey · Post by **kweensey** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 2:36 am

Of course! I know this problem was in regural installation of freetype but I thought this problem is solved in psplibraries installation.. Thanks a lot!

EDIT: It's working! It's really working!!! Aaaa! :D Thank you! Thank you very much for help! Thanks to J.F. for psplibraries hint and thanks to a_noob for pgeFont hint, too.. I'm so happy.. :)

Problem solved! ;)