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diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index 4cede7375..de51d781d 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -7,7 +7,19 @@ overview of the documentation available: I. Normal installation and upgrades =================================== - 1. Unix Systems (including Mac OS X, Cygwin, and MSys on Windows) + 0. Modify `include/freetype/config/ftoption.h', if necessary, to + control how the FreeType library gets built. Normally, you don't + need to change anything. + + Applications can't control FreeType's behaviour at build time. + To make applications control (some of) FreeType's behaviour at + run-time, look at the documentation of function + `FT_Property_Set'. + + 1. Unix and Unix-like systems + + This also includes MacOS, Cygwin, MinGW + MSYS, Mingw-w64 + MSYS2, + and possibly other, similar environments. Please read `INSTALL.UNIX' to install or upgrade FreeType 2 on a Unix system. Note that you *need* GNU Make for automatic @@ -26,10 +38,11 @@ I. Normal installation and upgrades 3. Other systems using GNU Make - On non-Unix platforms, it is possible to build the library using - GNU Make utility. Note that *NO OTHER MAKE TOOL WILL WORK*[1]! - This methods supports several compilers on Windows, OS/2, and - BeOS, including MinGW, Visual C++, Borland C++, and more. + On some non-Unix platforms, it is possible to build the library + using only the GNU Make utility. Note that *NO OTHER MAKE TOOL + WILL WORK*[1]! This methods supports several compilers on + Windows, OS/2, and BeOS, including MinGW* (without MSYS*), Visual + C++, Borland C++, and more. Instructions are provided in the file `INSTALL.GNU'. |