Freetype

[Brian Beuken]

This will be covered in some demos I am doing but its useful for older code too. Full2D Text display can be a bit tricky on C++ GPU projects but there's a nice library that lets us do quite a lot, to install the libs you do need to build it so here are the steps

Code:

sudo apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev -y

cd /home/pi

Code:

wget https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.6.3.tar.gz

Code:

tar -xvzf freetype-2.6.3.tar.gz

Code:

cd freetype-2.6.3

Code:

make

Code:

sudo make install

you could make a script for this if you want. I covered how to use this in Lesson 10 of the MagiPi tuts.

[Brian Beuken]

oh and check for latest verison, here I'm using 2.6.3 but theres actuallly 2.10.4 now. I have no idea what was updated but both work just fine