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          <p>Stable releases of the FreeType packages, including
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          <p>Windows DLLs of FreeType can also be downloaded
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          <p>Downloading and compiling a development snapshot (or
            using the git repositories directly) 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 such
            glitches should happen very rarely.</p>

          <p>For more details on compilation from git, please read the
            file
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              Make</a> is required to use the FreeType build system
              from a command line prompt.</p>

          <p>Note that the binary comes from the
            excellent <a href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW
            distribution</a>, which we highly recommend over Cygwin,
            if you don't need POSIX-compliance, in terms of ease of
            use and performance.</p>

          <p>After installation you should check that it is correctly
            invoked by typing:</p>

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make -v</pre>

          <p>The first lines should read:</p>

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GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.</pre>

          <p>Newer versions work also, of course.</p>


          <h3>Project Files</h3>

          <p>The FreeType source code bundle contains project files
            for various versions of Microsoft Visual&nbsp;C++ and
            Visual Studio for x64, Windows&nbsp;32, and
            Windows&nbsp;CE.  However, these files have been
            contributed and might be out of date, thus use them with
            care.</p>

          <p>For classic MacOS, support files for MPW and CodeWarrior
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