Re: Error due to #including FT_ERRORS_H

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad esfahbod gmail com>]

Thanks John. That is indeed a FreeType issue.  I replied to your post on the
FreeType mailing list.

On 16-01-20 02:16 PM, John Emmas wrote:
> Is this the right list for reporting pango development issues? Assuming it is...
>
> I updated freetype2 a few days ago (i.e. I pulled the latest source code from
> git) and I've just realised that pango fails to build now (with MSVC).  The
> problem is at these lines, round about line 540 of 'pango/pangoft2.c':-
>
>       static const ft_error_description ft_errors[] =
>     #include FT_ERRORS_H
>
>     #undef FT_ERRORDEF
>     #undef FT_ERROR_START_LIST
>     #undef FT_ERROR_END_LIST
>
>       ft_error_description *found = /* <-- ERROR HERE !!! */
>         bsearch (&error, ft_errors, G_N_ELEMENTS (ft_errors),
>              sizeof (ft_errors[0]), ft_error_compare);
>
> MSVC gives me:-  'error C2275: 'ft_error_description' : illegal use of this
> type as an expression'.  To be honest, I suspect that the actual error might
> be a few lines earlier - i.e.
>
>       static const ft_error_description ft_errors[] =
>     #include FT_ERRORS_H
>
> My best guess is that something got changed somewhere in
> 'freetype/fterrors.h'.  It does look like something got done (about a week
> ago) to remove underscores from some macro names but I'm not sure why that
> would cause this problem.  Can anyone hazard a guess at what might be wrong? 
> Thanks,
>
> John
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