LibreCAD - Re: Qt6 migration

Re: Qt6 migration

Posted by marko.p.radojcic on Nov 14, 2023; 2:29pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Qt6-migration-tp5723851p5723864.html

LordOfBikes wrote

Welcome Marko!

Freetype 2 is only used in ttf2llf tool and it should be optional.
Off the top of my head I can't say how it is detected or controlled, but LibreCAD builds fine without freetype2. It is somewhere in the qmake project files and a manual path can be set by custom.pri iirc.

ttf2lff is our font converter and I recently published a test site at https://librecad.org/ttf2lff/ where ttf2lff is triggered with an upload form. The converted LFF file can then be downloaded there.
So basically there is no need to build this tool and you must not necessarily struggle with it.

Armin

Thank you for the welcome.

I will not struggle with the freetype2 library, yes, it is used by ttf2lff only.
I checked Windows release 2.2.0.2 and it also has problem with hatches. It doesn't crash but it doesn't show the hatch, nor does it display on main view. Linux qt5 release does not have this problem. I am attempting Linux qt6 build, but unfortunately my repositories have Qt 6.2.4 only and it the build is failing.