Changeset 2f9f352 in buchla-emu for readme.txt

Timestamp:

07/22/2017 03:27:04 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

Thomas Lopatic <thomas@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

d94a7be

Parents:

de65155

Message:

Added SDL2_ttf.

File:

• readme.txt (modified) (1 diff)

readme.txt

@@ -26 +26 @@
   https://libsdl.org/
 
+The SDL2 website also hosts the SDL2_ttf project, which adds support
+for TrueType fonts to SDL2. SDL2_ttf, in turn, requires the FreeType
+library, which is available from the FreeType website:
+
+  https://www.freetype.org/
+
 Currently, the emulator supports Linux and OS X. A port to Windows
 should be pretty easy, given that it doesn't use any platform-specific
 features, just C99 and SDL2.
 
-Our Makefile expects SDL2 to reside in /opt/sdl2. This is how we
-typically install it:
+Our Makefile expects all of the above libraries to reside in
+/opt/sdl2. This is how we typically install them:
+
+  # Build and install FreeType first
+
+  tar zxvf freetype-2.7.1.tar.gz
+  cd freetype-2.7.1
+  mkdir build
+  cd build
+
+  # Skip the optional features (compressed fonts, etc.) that would
+  # create more dependencies
+
+  ../configure --prefix=/opt/sdl2 \
+    --without-zlib --without-bzip2 --without-png --without-harfbuzz
+
+  make
+  make install
+
+  # Then build and install SDL2
 
   tar zxvf SDL2-2.0.5.tar.gz
   cd SDL2-2.0.5
-
   mkdir build
   cd build
 
   ../configure --prefix=/opt/sdl2
+
   make
   make install
 
-Now that we have SDL2 in place, invoke
+  # Build and install SDL2_ttf last
+
+  tar zxvf SDL2_ttf-2.0.14.tar.gz
+  cd SDL2_ttf-2.0.14
+  mkdir build
+  cd build
+
+  ../configure --prefix=/opt/sdl2
+
+  make
+  make install
+
+Now that we have everything in place, invoke
 
   make buchla