FREETYPE DOWNLOADS

Stable Releases

Stable releases of the FreeType packages, including source code, documentation, demo programs, and support tools can be downloaded directly from

Windows binaries of FreeType 2 can also be downloaded directly from this download page of the GnuWin32 project.

Development versions

Development snapshots are not available at the moment. We try to provide them again when our move to Savannah is complete.

Please use CVS to access the current code, following the instructions found at the following address:

Downloading and compiling a development snapshot is one of the first things to do when you encounter something that looks like a bug in FreeType. Note that we do not guarantee that all development snapshots work on a given day, though this should be the normal case.

FTP Server & Mirrors

FTP is not available at the moment. We try to provide this service again when our move to Savannah is complete.

Please use SourceForge to download releases (see above; SourceForge has mirrors worldwide).

Support Tools and Binaries

GNU Make for Win32

GNU Make is required to use the FreeType 2 build system from a command line prompt. We provide a pre-compiled binary of this incredibly useful tool to help you build the engine on Windows 95/98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000.

Note that the binary comes from the excellent MinGW distribution, which we highly recommend over Cygwin, if you don't need POSIX-compliance, in terms of ease of use and performance.

Download the zip file and uncompress the executable into your path. Then, check that it is correctly invoked by typing:

  make -v

The first lines should read:

  GNU Make version 3.77, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
  Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98
          Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Of course it is possible that you have a newer version which should work fine too.

FreeType Jam for Win32 and Linux (libc6)

Since release 2.0.2, FreeType 2 and its demo programs can be compiled with an alternative build tool called ‘jam’. Jam is a small, portable, and open-source replacement for ‘make’ that is a lot easier to use, and which transparently supports multiple platforms and compilers.

Since our FTP is down, please get the binaries for your platform from our own download page on SourceForge.

This page gives more information regarding Jam and FreeType.

FreeType/2

This is a free replacement for OS/2's TRUETYPE.DLL, providing better TrueType support than the original library.

The package contains three versions of the DLL.

• The unmodified first beta, which should work perfectly on any OS/2 2.1 system.
• Version 1.01 for Warp 3 and above. This provides enhanced international support, better memory foot-print, faster font openings, etc.
• Version 1.01 for Warp 4. Same as the previous one, but compiled to use the library UCONV.DLL for optimal Unicode support. This should also work on any Warp 3 system with sufficient fixpacks applied.

It comes with simple ‘install’ and ‘uninstall’ scripts. Source code is available in the contrib/ftos2 directory of the FreeType 1 source archive (see above).

These files are currently only available from the CVS. It will be available again when our FTP service is back. Sorry for the inconvenience.