Commit d92b759ee866e2c30b02c540ce1de8860e536ef3

henry 2002-02-09T23:56:05

Added an faq about missing freetype includes

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@@ -203,6 +203,12 @@ This will return an error if the requested encoding can't be found in the font.
 <A NAME="FAQ">
 <H2>FAQ</H2>
 
+WhenI try to compile FTGL it complains about a missing file from the include:
+
+#include <ft2build.h>
+
+FTGL relies on freetype 2 for opening and decoding font files. This include is the main include for freetype. You will need to download Freetype 2 and install it. Then make sure that the FTGL project that you are using points to your freetype installation.
+
 
 2) Is it possible to map a font to a "unit" size? My application relies on
 the fonts being a certain "physical" height (in OpenGL coordinate space)
@@ -221,6 +227,7 @@ Couple of extra things to note. The quality of vector glyphs will not change whe
 Early on I did a lot of head scratching over the opengl unit to font size thing because when I was first integrating FTGL into my engine the fonts weren't the size I was expecting. I was tempted to build in some scaling but I decided doing nothing was the best approach because you can't please everyone. Plus it's 'correct' as it is.
 
 
+
 <H3>Sample font manager class.</H3>