can i make it?

I wanted to use libpng library from C++. It depends on zlib.

Building zlib

1. Unzip the zlib file and edit win32/makefile.gcc
2. Add following lines at the head of the file
   

   BINARY_PATH=${HOME}/Local/zlib-1.2.5/bin
   INCLUDE_PATH=${HOME}/Local/zlib-1.2.5/include
   LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/Local/zlib-1.2.5/lib
   

   
   Wrapping the HOME variables with curl bracket is important in
   makefile. Without it, the actual installation path would be
   ./${H}OME/Local/..., and if ${H} is undefined, it’s just
   ./OME/Local/…, which is not what I want.
   To build a shared library, change the SHARED_MODE to 1, as is written
   in the makefile.
3. Then build by ‘make –f win32/makefile.gcc’
4. Test by ‘make –f win32/makefile.gcc test’
5. Install by ‘make –f win32/makefile.gcc test’

Building libpng

It looks like pngwriter does not compile with the latest 1.5.x version
of libpng. Instead, using older 1.4.x is ok.
Download(ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.4.8.tar.bz2
)

1. Untar and configure like this
   

   export LDFLAGS="-L/home/est/Local/zlib-1.2.5/lib"
   export CPPFLAGS="-I/home/est/Local/zlib-1.2.5/include"
   export CXXFLAGS="-I/home/est/Local/zlib-1.2.5/include"
   ./configure --prefix=/home/est/Local/libpng-1.5.4
   make
   make install
   

Building freetype

Freetype2 has no external library dependence.

1. ./configure --prefix=/home/est/Local/freetype-2.4.6

2. make && make install