Re: [ft] Linking custom code to right Freetype version

[Ammar ul hassan]

Thank you very much for your reply.
I fixed the issue, it was actually dynamic linking problem, so i set the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to the .so file i wanted to link. It working fine
now

Thanks

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> > I am working in linux platform. I am changing some code in Freetype and
> > looks like they are not applied or linked. Even i tried to comment all
> the
> > code of function FT_Init_FreeType and called it with my application and
> > still it worked. I compiled Freetype without errors and than installed it
> > via sudo make install that means it should always invoke these freetype
> > files, whenever i call it with my application.
>
> I think this problem is not related to FreeType at all; it is rather a
> generic problem with dynamic libraries, and you should make yourself
> better acquainted with this topic.
>
> `make install' by default installs into `/usr/local'.  I guess your
> system is set up so that the dynamic linker looks into `/usr' first.
> Since virtually all GNU/Linux platforms come with `libfreetype' in
> `/usr', this version will be linked to.  You can use the `ldd' program
> to check which dynamic libraries your application is using.
>
> Possible solutions.
>
>   . Ensure that `/usr/local' gets found first by the dynamic linker,
>     `ld.so'.  Note that this can still be problematic since other
>     system DLLs might still depend on libfreetype from `/usr'.
>
>   . Use the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.  This works 100%.
>     However, it is suited for testing only.
>
>   . Use static linking.  This works 100%, too.
>
>
>      Werner
>