Re: [Freetype] Re: Summary of ANSI preprocessor trouble..

[Antoine Leca]

Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Antoine Leca wrote:
> 
> > Typically, if you expand the tree using WinZip (the usual way to do
> > on a Win platform) on a VFAT partition, the directory will be named
> > freetype2 with long file names, but freety~1 using short ones.
> > If you use a DOS tool that is unaware of long file names, it will
> > indeed truncate the name. And will fail to find freetype, because
> > there are no such beast. :-(.
> 
> There exists a Windows registry key that changes that "~" behaviour,
> and most DOS under windows developers know about that.

Yes, I know about it, but my current job forbids me to use such methods
(I have tens of thousands of Windows users to support; also, as I develop
for both DOS and Windows, this is not always sympathic). I agree I am not
the good reference here, though: DOS users of Freetype are likely to be
exclusive!

 
> BTW, I think FreeType under DOS with any compiler other than DJGPP
> will be only for playing.

Watcom or Borland (BC++, not BCB) compilers with no effort, and
Microsoft's with only a little one, can also build 32-bit DOS
extended targets. I agree these are less available for the hobbyist
than DJGPP, but also I will believe that Freetype does not restrict
itself to the hobbyists.
The real point here is that DOS is really declining these days (at least
from the point of view of possible uses of Freetype), while things like
DirectX are growing.


Antoine