Re: [ft] freetype not linking correctly under borland C++

[Nathan Goings]

Thank you for your time.  I removed freetype.lib from FTGL.lib so they were seperate.  Which re-compiling FTGL made it complain, but still build.  Then I linked both to my project and the problem was very clear.

There were multiple undefined symbols.  As I was probably not defining any constants like FT_NO_CFF (just an example) it was probably trying to build everything including prototypes to functions I hadn't included in my freetype.lib project.

After tracking down all the files and compiling/linking them in freetype, I then built my font testing project.  After a little work I got all fonts to render correctly.

I still don't know what "Error processing module" means, but I'm almost sure that it was because I had undefined symbols in a second-level linked library.

My only problem is, that FTGL won't link to freetype directly, so I have to add FTGL and freetype together in any projects I want to use them
 with.

I'm thinking it's because I built freetype by hand.  I couldn't get "make setup bcc32" working because borland has a "make" that it registers on the console.  So I'm calling a borland make and not the GNU make.

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
> > [Linker Error] Error: Error processing module ftglyph.c
>
> This is a cryptic error message without any guide to the user.  You
> should complain to the developers of the linker :-)
>
> > When building I got two warnings:
> > [C++ Warning] ftglyph.c(329): W8075 Suspicious pointer conversion
> > [C++ Warning] ftobjs.c(2319): W8004 'error' is assigned a value that
> >                               is never used
>
> Both should be harmless.
>
> > Maybe this is my problem? the only thing I could find on google
> > about "error
>  processing module" was to recompile the project.  That
> > did not work.
>
> A C/C++ issue?  Have you compiled everything with C++?
>
> This is just a wild guess.  We need more detailed log data for any
> further advice -- perhaps you can force the compiler/linker to be more
> verbose.
>
>
>     Werner

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