The Windows build appears to be broken; it fails looking for libfreetype.a

[danpike]

Hi.

I've just downloaded the source for FreeCAD. When I use CMake on Windows using Visual Studio for my target generator, the build fails because the project files that were created by CMake are trying to link to a file called C:\Strawberry\c\lib\libfreetype.a:

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2>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'C:\Strawberry\c\lib\libfreetype.a'
2>Done building project "SMDS.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
...
3>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'C:\Strawberry\c\lib\libfreetype.a'
3>Done building project "Driver.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
...
6>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'C:\Strawberry\c\lib\libfreetype.a'
6>Done building project "MEFISTO2.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
[etc.]
========== Rebuild All: 96 succeeded, 18 failed, 4 skipped ==========

There's no such folder on my machine (my perl installation is somewhere else), so does the panel have any idea why it's hardcoding the library file name to this?

There is a valid copy of freetype.lib in my libpack (which is also on my PATH):

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C:\>dir %FREECAD_LIBPACK_DIR%\lib\freetype.lib

 Directory of D:\work\libpack\FreeCADLibs_12.5.3_x64_VC17\lib

09/11/2020  11:31         1,792,950 freetype.lib
               1 File(s)      1,792,950 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  244,059,901,952 bytes free
               
C:\>where LICENSE_LGPL_21.txt
D:\work\libpack\FreeCADLibs_12.5.3_x64_VC17\LICENSE_LGPL_21.txt

Thanks,

Dan

[GeneFC]

I saw this same thing a couple of months ago. It is obvious that the Libpack has the extra stuff.

I used a different Libpack and everything worked fine.

Unfortunately I am not close to my usual workstation, so I cannot tell you which Libpack was bad.

Just try a different one.

Unless you are making changes or testing something the easiest method is to use one of the premade packages on

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-AppI ... kly-builds

Gene

[david69]

there is that page on the wiki Compile_on_Windows_with_VS2013 but I don't think it's up to date.

[GeneFC]

there is that page on the wiki Compile_on_Windows_with_VS2013 but I don't think it's up to date.

Probably true, but the parent page is up to date.

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_Windows

I do not believe that the current master can even be compiled with VS2013.

Gene

[david69]

in that case, do you think it is worth to keep the child page? again, I have no idea if it is important or not. I'm translating the wiki.