freetype: port to meson (using git master)

[lazka]

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[Biswa96]

BTW, Arch uses tarball from GNU mirror.

[naveen521kk]

BTW, Arch uses tarball from GNU mirror.

I think meson support is something unreleased.

[lazka]

yeah, normally I would wait for the next release, but this fixes the clang build as well.

[naveen521kk]

Or can we backport the commits that brings meson support?

[lazka]

there are about 20 commits..

[naveen521kk]

looks like what currently is(using master) a lot easier than bringing 20 commits.

[revelator]

breaks texlive-bin because of a missing header
missing-header.zip

[hhromic]

Hi @lazka , this PR unfortunately breaks libfreetype for us at Solarus Games.

The last working version is mingw-w64-x86_64-freetype-2.10.4-1-any.pkg.tar.zst, which was using a stable from upstream.

One of our games uses this font for Chinese languages which no longer works since mingw-w64-x86_64-freetype-2.10.4-2-any.pkg.tar.zst with "Glyph not found" errors from SDL2_ttf.

Simply downgrading to the previous stable version mentioned makes it work again.
Freetype is a rather fundamental package, maybe is better to stay at stable versions instad of Git commits?

[1480c1]

Could you try using building from upstream and seeing if that breaks it as well, it could be an actual upstream issue that would need to be reported either way

[hhromic]

Could you try using building from upstream and seeing if that breaks it as well, it could be an actual upstream issue that would need to be reported either way

I just re-built mingw-w64-freetype using latest master (commit 8336d53c) from upstream and indeed it still breaks :/

While I agree that this should be reported upstream (and I will do so), I also think that MSYS2 should not be shipping broken packages either :(