[vtkusers] Problem with libvtkfreetype / Usage of system's 'freetype'-library?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Jens Fisseler wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> I'm wondering if it is possible (or planned) to use the system
> 'freetype'-library with VTK, like it can be done with libjpeg, libpng
> etc.
> 
> My question stems from the fact that it took me nearly a day to track
> down a bug and integrate quite a recent version of libfreetype (2.1.5,
> as this matches the one installed on my system) into the
> VTK-4.4-Sources. Originally I was trying to get wxGTK-2.4.2 (with
> gtk+-2.4) and Mathieu Malaterre's wxVTK-0.7 to work, which I couldn't
> before upgrading VTK's 'freetype'-library. I suppose something must have
> changed between freetype-2.1.1 used by VTK-4.4 (and VTK-CVS) and more
> recent versions. I don't know whether it's only the 'freetype'-library
> or also other things, but I'm wondering if other users have had problems
> with VTK and freetype or only me?

Jens,

	Could you send us a way to reproduce the bug, please ?

Thanks
Mathieu