[Image-SIG] Complication Problem: FREETYPE2 support not available

[Fredrik Lundh]

Juguang XIAO wrote:

> I am new to this list, so this question may sound silly.
>
> I am using Mac OS X 10.4.3, and my Python is
>
> Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 20 2005, 20:38:20)
> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin
>
> I have updated my freetype2 by darwinports to libfreetype.
> 6.3.7.dylib, which I think it is freetype 2.1.9_1
>
> And here is my modified setup.py, in which JPEG works after this file
> is changed like this.
>
> FREETYPE_ROOT = '/opt/local/lib/'

are you sure the freetype include files are located under /opt/local/lib?

try replacing that line with

    FREETYPE_ROOT = libinclude("/opt/local")

(or use a prebuilt release for Mac OS X; the 10.3+ builds available here
should work: http://pythonmac.org/packages/ )

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