Question

I want make freetype in my cygwin, after I input make command

I:\freetype-2.4.4>make
make: ver: Command not found
make: type: Command not found
make: * [dos_setup] Error 127

I don’t know what is the ver and type command package name.
Someone can tell me I can add them in my cygwin system

Answer 1

The FreeType docs specifically state that you should stay away from CygWin, preferring MinGW instead.

That seems to be confirmed by the fact that ver and type are Windows commands, and MinGW is UNIX executables under Windows rather than UNIX executables running under the CygWin DLL emulation environment.

So, here’s the install process I used.

1. Go to SourceForge MinGW and get the latest installer, mingw-get-inst-20101030.exe. Run this.

2. Choose the defaults for everything except the package selection (you have to accept the GPL of course). When it asks which packages you want, ask for them all.

3. Let it install.

4. Once done, open up the control panel, choose System, select the Advanced tab, click on the Environment Variables button, then change your path to append ;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin. Exit the control panel.

5. Open up a command window and go to the directory where you unpacked ft244.zip.

6. Run make (may need to do this twice).

And that should work:

C:\freetype-2.4.4> make
gcc -ansi -pedantic  -I./objs -I./builds/win32 -I./include -c -g -O3 -Wall 
    -DFT2_BUILD_LIBRARY -DFT_CONFIG_MODULES_H="<ftmodule.h>"
    -o objs/ftsystem.o src/base/ftsystem.c
gcc -ansi -pedantic  -I./objs -I./builds/win32 -I./include -c -g -O3 -Wall 
    -DFT2_BUILD_LIBRARY -DFT_CONFIG_MODULES_H="<ftmodule.h>"
    -o objs/ftdebug.o src/base/ftdebug.c
: : :
<<snip>>
: : :
del .\objs\freetype.a 2> nul
make: [objs/freetype.a] Error 127 (ignored)
ar -r objs/freetype.a  ./objs/ftsystem.o ./objs/ftdebug.o ./objs/ftinit.o
      ./objs/ftbase.o ./objs/ftbbox.o ./objs/ftbdf.o ./objs/ftbitmap.o
      ./objs/ftcid.o ./objs/ftfstype.o ./objs/ftgasp.o ./objs/ftglyph.o
      ./objs/ftgxval.o ./objs/ftlcdfil.o ./objs/ftmm.o ./objs/ftotval.o
      ./objs/ftpatent.o ./objs/ftpfr.o ./objs/ftstroke.o ./objs/ftsynth.o
      ./objs/fttype1.o ./objs/ftwinfnt.o ./objs/ftxf86.o ./objs/truetype.o
      ./objs/type1.o ./objs/cff.o ./objs/type1cid.o ./objs/pfr.o
      ./objs/type42.o ./objs/winfnt.o ./objs/pcf.o ./objs/bdf.o
      ./objs/sfnt.o ./objs/autofit.o ./objs/pshinter.o ./objs/raster.o
      ./objs/smooth.o ./objs/ftcache.o ./objs/ftgzip.o ./objs/ftlzw.o
      ./objs/psaux.o ./objs/psnames.o
C:\MinGW\bin\ar.exe: creating objs/freetype.a

C:\freetype-2.4.4> _