[fpc-devel] ftfont and FreeType

[Ondrej Pokorny]

I am not 100% sure, but some freetype.dll versions can depend on 
zlib1.dll. I.e. you need to copy zlib1.dll to the exe directory as well.

Actually I just found an info about it: 
https://wiki.freepascal.org/FPReport_FAQ (see Lazarus does not start 
anymore in Windows).

Ondrej


On 17.07.2020 11:37, Werner Pamler wrote:
> I am having issues in the nogui demo of TAChart with FPC 3.2.0. It 
> uses the FCL unit ftfont and crashes at runtime with
>
>     Project noguidemo.exe raised exception class 'EInOutError' with 
> message:
>     Can not load Freetype library "freetype.dll". Check your 
> installation.
>
> This does not happen when I compile exactly the same program with FPC 
> 3.0.4
>
> Since I see in the ftfont code the directive {$DEFINE DYNAMIC} I 
> downloaded the freetype.dll from the 
> https://github.com/ubawurinna/freetype-windows-binaries (recommended 
> by freetype.org) into the exe directory, but it still does not run 
> (same error).
>
> Any idea what I can do to make the program work again? I am on Windows 
> 10.
>
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