[fpc-devel] ftfont and FreeType

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2020, Werner Pamler wrote:

> Am 17.07.2020 um 17:26 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
>> It is exactly the opposite.
>>
>> It can now load the DLL dynamically.
>>
>> home:~/fpc/packages/fcl-image/src> svn log freetypeh.pp 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> r37865 | michael | 2017-12-29 15:22:33 +0100 (Fri, 29 Dec 2017) | 1 line
>>
>> Dynamic use of freetype lib
>>
>> You can use unit freetypeh.pp which links statically (as it was)
>> or freetypehdyn.pp which loads dynamically.
>>
>> fpReport does require the presence of freetype. In order to be able to
>> install it in Lazarus without requiring the presence of a dll, the 
>> ability
>> to load freetype dll dynamically was added.
> Please excuse my ignorance: How can I change using freetypeh instead of 
> freetypedyn (which is default and thus breaks existing code)?

First you'll have to explain something:
Why does it break existing code according to you ?
The default library name is the same in both units.

Michael.