RuntimeError: Freetype library not found about freetype-py HOT 14 CLOSED

This means the freetype library (not the freetype-py) cannot be found. Do you know where it is located by any chance ? Usually it is in /usr/local

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The screenshot looks like windows. /usr/local isn't relevant..

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yeah it is windouws10. but it's alright when I use python2.7

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It is freetype library？ it dosen't work

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I add dll=ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('C:\Windows\System32') at raw.py

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oh I solved this problem! I get a freetype.dll for win10 replace old one. so simply,but It took me two days.thanks god!
http://www.dllzj.com/gdx-freetype64.dll/

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Do you really want to download the windows freetype dll from random places on the Internet? I am surprised that freetype-py does not provides it, but SharpFont (C# binding for freetype) certainly does. My fork of Font Validator also does - more up to date, and with mac os x freetype dylib also; though because it is cross-compiled with mine rather than with MS VC like SharpFont's, is a bundle of about 5 dll's with the usual oss dependencies rather than a single dll as in the SharpFont provide.

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or have an official recommended source of windows freetype dll.

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Unfortunately I've no experience with Windows and DLL. What would be the best recommended way ?

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Freetype.dll has too many versions,I can't use it download from the official website. So I try this, and It works well.

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http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/ Old freetype download link.The system prompt:Does not support your device(Probably mean it). I've tried many versions.

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Afaik, savannah ships only freetype source code - do you actually have a url for dll download from savannah?

And do you actually care about which versions of freetype to use? Most people do not - the external interfaces rarely changes and haven't for decades. If freetype-py actually uses version-specific APIs, it is up to freetype-py to care, not the end user. Freetype provides API's for querying its version - so it is quite easy to adapt to different freetype dll versions even if you use version-specific APIs. For example, I contributed an enhancement to freetype to make font validator's tests possible. It went in at 2.6.1 - so my application code actually checks the found freetype dll as higher than 2.6.1 at those points, or tell the user that he needs to get a more recent freetype.

As I mentioned earlier, the SharpFont project actively maintains and ships freetype windows dlls:

https://github.com/Robmaister/SharpFont.Dependencies

Perhaps it is best to test and adapt freetype-py to those, or co-ordinate with them.

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Yeah, I download from savannah, and my PC says: not support. I do not know why. But when I download
freetype dll from other web,it works well. Maybe my PC has a problem.

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Thank you for your advice

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