FreeType compilation

This page explains how to recompile the FreeType dependency on every platforms. FreeType is font engine used internally by Webots to draw text with Display nodes and Supervisor labels.

Windows

On Windows, FreeType is provided as a MSYS2 pacman package and is automatically installed when installing the msys dependencies.

Linux

On Linux, FreeType is also provided as a package called libfreetype6-dev and is automatically installed when installing the required packages.

Mac

Note: Unfortunately, HomeBrew's precompiled FreeType cannot be used, because of the macOS deployment target.

Create the precompiled freetype package:

cd ~/software
wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.9.tar.bz2
tar jxf freetype-2.9.tar.bz2
cd freetype-2.9
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.9
./configure --without-zlib --without-bzip2 --without-png
make -jX
cd ..
tar -cvjSf macos-precompiled-freetype-2.9.tar.bz2 freetype-2.9