https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/freetype-sys

Low level bindings for the FreeType font library
https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/freetype-sys

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Low level bindings for the FreeType font library

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/freetype-sys
• Owner: PistonDevelopers
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-12-11T20:07:32.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-24T20:04:26.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-26T07:38:59.995Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Rust
• Size: 6.68 MB
• Stars: 28
• Watchers: 41
• Forks: 42
• Open Issues: 11
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
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Low level bindings for the FreeType font library.

# Statically linking against FreeType

If the `bundled` feature is enabled, `freetype-sys` will build and link a static copy of FreeType. This requires a C compiler. The included version of FreeType is 2.13.2.

```

[dependencies]

freetype-sys = { version = "0.21", features = ["bundled"] }

```

## For Windows users

### -pc-windows-gnu

In order to easily setup FreeType just get MSYS2 and install either the `mingw-w64-x86_64-freetype` or `mingw-w64-i686-freetype` package and then use Rust from within the correct MinGW shell of MSYS2.

More information on setting up MSYS2 for Rust can be found in [the Rust installing from source document](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/INSTALL.md#building-on-windows).

### -pc-windows-msvc

Prebuilt libraries for FreeType are available [here](https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/binaries).

Then in the root of your project, in one of the parent directories, or in your home directory, create a .cargo directory. This directory should contain a `config` file that contains the following snippet:

```toml

[target.i686-pc-windows-msvc.freetype]

rustc-link-search = ["C:\\Path\\To\\binaries\\i686"]

rustc-link-lib = ["freetype"]

[target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.freetype]

rustc-link-search = ["C:\\Path\\To\\binaries\\x86_64"]

rustc-link-lib = ["freetype"]

```

For more information, check [the official Cargo documentation](https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html#overriding-build-scripts).