[mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)

[Andrei Tanas]

> Hmm, well I just followed all of the instructions in the Wiki and I had
> no errors in my qt build(with the plugin for mysql option). I used the
> regular gcc that comes with MinGW.
> 
> But, I am having issues with my build of mythtv. I have compiled all of
> the dependencies and such but when I go to run the configure script for
> myth I get:
> ERROR! You must have FreeType installed to compile MythTV.
> If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the
> latest version from SVN.  If the latest version fails, report the
> problem to the mythtv-dev at mythtv.org mailing list or IRC #mythtv on
> irc.freenode.net Include the log file "config.err" produced by
> configure as this will help solving the problem.

Have you installed freetype with "make install"? Do you have
libfreetype-6.dll in yor mingw bin directory and freetype2/freetype in your
include directory?