ref: b9b74f9f78565513086050acdda98ddc23cf605e
parent: f9350be1e45baa1c29f7551274982262f8e769ce
author: Alexei Podtelezhnikov <[email protected]>
date: Sat Apr 10 19:32:20 EDT 2021
A few words on prerequisites.
--- a/docs/INSTALL
+++ b/docs/INSTALL
@@ -4,18 +4,28 @@
overview of the documentation available:
-I. Normal installation and upgrades
-===================================
+I. Prerequisites and dependencies
+=================================
- 0. Modify `include/freetype/config/ftoption.h', if necessary, to
- control how the FreeType library gets built. Normally, you don't
- need to change anything.
+ FreeType is a low level C library that only depends on the standard
+ C library with very few platform-dependent optimizations utilized at
+ build time. System libraries, such as zlib, Gzip, bzip2, Brotli,
+ and libpng, might be used to handle compressed fonts or decode
+ embedded PNG glyphs.
- Applications can't control FreeType's behaviour at build time.
- To make applications control (some of) FreeType's behaviour at
- run-time, look at the documentation of function
- `FT_Property_Set'.
+ FreeType auto-configuration scripts should be able to detect the
+ prerequisites if the necessary headers are available at the default
+ locations. Otherwise, modify `include/freetype/config/ftoption.h'
+ to control how the FreeType library gets built. Normally, you don't
+ need to change anything.
+ Applications have very limited control over FreeType's behaviour at
+ run-time; look at the documentation of function `FT_Property_Set'.
+
+
+II. Normal installation and upgrades
+====================================
+
1. Unix and Unix-like systems
This also includes MacOS, Cygwin, MinGW + MSYS, Mingw-w64 + MSYS2,
@@ -70,8 +80,8 @@
directory.
-II. Custom builds of the library
-================================
+III. Custom builds of the library
+=================================
Customizing the compilation of FreeType is easy, and allows you to
select only the components of the font engine that you really need.
--- a/docs/INSTALL.UNIX
+++ b/docs/INSTALL.UNIX
@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@
./configure --help
to see the list of possible configuration options and important
- environment variables.
+ environment variables. The ./configure script will detect some
+ prerequisite system libraries (libpng, brotli, etc.) if their
+ headers are available at the default locations.
The following should work on all Unix systems where the `make'
command invokes GNU Make: