Compiling FreeType for iPhone

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6425643/compiling-freetype-for-iphone

I used the link in cxa's answer. However it is very out of date, and my configure line did not fit in a comment. For armv7, compiling with the 6.1 SDK, with a minimum version of 5.1, without bzip2, you want something like:

./configure '--without-bzip2' '--prefix=/usr/local/iphone' '--host=arm-apple-darwin' '--enable-static=yes' '--enable-shared=no' 'CC=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/gcc' 'CFLAGS=-arch armv7 -pipe -std=c99 -Wno-trigraphs -fpascal-strings -O2 -Wreturn-type -Wunused-variable -fmessage-length=0 -fvisibility=hidden -miphoneos-version-min=5.1 -I/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS6.1.sdk/usr/include/libxml2/ -isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS6.1.sdk/' 'AR=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/ar' 'LDFLAGS=-arch armv7 -isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS6.1.sdk/ -miphoneos-version-min=5.1'

Note the lack of -mdynamic-no-pic which would otherwise produce a linker warning, and a warning email from Apple, if left in. Also note that various pathnames have changed.

I came across this project today while trying to compile FreeType for iOS: https://github.com/cdave1/freetype2-ios

Just download, open in xcode, and compile. :)

Hope this is helpful for anyone else trying to compile for iOS.

I have compiled FreeType for iOS successfully with this link: http://librocket.com/wiki/documentation/BuildingFreeTypeForiOS