Anybody use Derelict FreeType recently (successfully)

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 20 September 2015 at 02:58:21 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:

> For my D programming I use the Visual D Studio package 
> (plug-in?) with the "free Visual Studio Shell (2013).
>
> I download Visual Studio Express 2015 and used the FreeType 2.6 
> solution file. (So no makefile).
>
> I tried making both a 32 and 64 bit freetype.dll  I've got a 64 
> bit Windows 8.1 machine, but I tried to leave no stone 
> untouched.
>
> I'm kinda self taught, so I might have made an error somewhere.
>  Or Could Visual Studio Express 2015 be too new?

The new unified C runtime that MS uses with VS 2015 could 
potentially be an issue, but you would have seen a 
SharedLibLoadException if that were a problem in this case. I'll 
play around with it when I have time. I want to try to reproduce 
it if possible so that if it turns out to be an issue others are 
likely to face, I can add a warning to the future documentation 
about how *not* to build FreeType on Windows.

I've had problems with Visual Studio builds of open source 
libraries in the past. The project solutions that they ship are 
often outdated, missing certain files or options. Visual Studio 
support tends to, understandably, lag behind in projects that are 
primarily maintained by Linux or Mac users, so it's often up to 
community members to keep it updated. For that reason, I prefer 
to build Windows DLLs with MinGW + MSYS2. I rarely have any 
issues taking that approach.

>
> PS.  Derelict is great.  I'm using FreeImage and OpenAL as well.

Thanks!