Re: GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.1: "Flux Capacitor"

[textshell neutronstar dyndns org]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 05:08:41AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> fontconfig, luckily, is the easy bit. :-) Xft2 is a bit harder without
> XFree86 4.2... Not good for users on other platforms.
> 
Well it's late and tired, but i put this here anyway.

I solved my problems and got Xft/Xrender to work with these rather simple
commands (XFree 4.1.0 from offical precompiled tarballs from XFree.org)

My prefix for gnome ist /opt/gnome-cvs and for normal XFree ist /usr/X11R6

xmkmf -DProjectRoot=/opt/gnome-cvs
mkdir -p /opt/gnome-cvs/include/X11/extensions
cp render.h /opt/gnome-cvs/include/X11/extensions/render.h
make STD_INCLUDES="-I. -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions"
gcc -o ./libXrender.so.1.1 -shared -Wl,-soname,libXrender.so.1 Xrender.o Color.o Composite.o Cursor.o Glyph.o Picture.o FillRect.o FillRects.o Poly.o Trap.o Tri.o -lc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext
make install

This is not easy to figure out for people that are happy to know enough about
auto* to solve such problems but I think it's easy to follow. The gcc line was
needed for some reason because else i get unsolved symbols later on.

Now just point out how stupid this is, maybe we get some information into the
mailing list that is really useful for all the testers.


G'night,

Martin H.