Re: error in meson build when using custom libpng build

Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Oct 2025 03:38:14 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello lucabac,


sorry for the late reply.

> [...], I changed the meson build file to include a fallback 'png'
> library name in addition to the existing 'libpng' (new feature as of
> meson v0.60.0).  With that, I was successfully able to build
> freetype.

Thanks for the patch.  I wonder whether there is a solution that works
with older meson versions.  In general, we try to avoid hard
dependencies on software that is younger than approx. five years, and
meson 0.60 was released only four years ago.


    Werner