Building freetype for android

[Duron27]

Hello everyone!

Despite my best efforts I cant get freetype to build without brotli. Its a feature and looks like ti should be able to skip but no matter what I do It always gets bundled.

I've used
"default-features": false

I've had to use my own port and remove all the brotli code from it.
any ideas?

[RKS (rksharma-owg)]

The current freetype port does make Brotli a default feature, because it is used for WOFF2 support. The important bit is where default-features: false is specified: it belongs on your dependency entry, not as a top-level setting in your own manifest.

For manifest mode, the shape should be something like:

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "dependencies": [
    {
      "name": "freetype",
      "default-features": false,
      "features": ["png", "zlib"]
    }
  ]
}

That disables freetype’s default brotli, bzip2, png, and zlib features, then enables only the ones you explicitly list. If you do not need any optional compression support, you can leave features out entirely.

One other thing to check: if another dependency in the graph requests freetype with its defaults enabled, vcpkg’s feature resolution can still bring those features back. The quickest way to isolate that is to try a tiny manifest containing only freetype with default-features: false, then add the rest of the dependency graph back.

So you should not need a private port just to remove Brotli. The port’s own manifest lists Brotli under default-features; the consumer manifest is where you opt out.

[Osyotr (Osyotr)]

Duron27 you forgot default-features: false there
https://gitlab.com/duron27/alpha3/-/blob/vcpkg/app/src/main/cpp/vcpkg-extras/ports/openmw-mygui-osx/vcpkg.json?ref_type=heads#L12

[Duron27]

I'm not building for Mac. I'm trying to build for android.

Once I get it figured out I'll upstream to this
https://github.com/OpenMW/openmw-deps-build

[Osyotr (Osyotr)]

Ok, running vcpkg depend-info --overlay-ports=ports --triplet=x64-android shows that freetype is also used by mygui and it also doesn't use default-features: false:

vcpkg/ports/mygui/vcpkg.json

Line 9 in 11ace80

"freetype",

[Duron27]

so does that mean I need a port of myqui to disable that feature?

[Osyotr (Osyotr)]

so does that mean I need a port of myqui to disable that feature?

Either open an issue or fix it yourself - it's really simple.

[RKS (rksharma-owg)]

Your linked manifest is using the correct direct declaration: {"name": "freetype", "default-features": false}. The current freetype port lists brotli among its default features, so that entry should disable it for the top-level request.

vcpkg can still re-enable a default feature when another dependency requests freetype transitively with its defaults; default-features: false is not propagated through that transitive request. In this manifest, I would check the resolved graph for another package pulling freetype in, and test from a fresh install root so an older feature selection is not being reused. vcpkg depend-info freetype is useful for the graph; if the clean graph still shows Brotli, please paste the relevant dependency path and the exact vcpkg install command so we can identify which port is requesting it.