[vtkusers] vtkFreeTypeUtilities.h includes FTGL.h?

[Sean McBride]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 15:22:04 -0400, Benoit Scherrer said:

>I just pulled the new version of VTK today and compiled it: no problem.
>However my program using VTK was not compiling anymore.
>
>The problem comes from i'm using vtkFreeTypeUtilities.h .
>This file now includes FTGL.h, which is not in the 'Install' output of VTK
>(but in Utilities/ftgl of the source of VTK).
>
>I just commented the line '#include <FTGL.h>'  in vtkFreeTypeUtilities.h
>and it seems it was not necessary, everything works fine.

My guess is vtkFreeTypeUtilities.h includes FTGL.h because it's FTGL.h that #defines FTGL_USE_NAMESPACE, and vtkFreeTypeUtilities.h tests if it is defined.  So it may still compile after you removed it, but it's probably compiling something different.

Maybe FTGL.h should be installed, I dunno.

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