
 gd 1.8.4 graphics library - OS/2 port
 =====================================

 This is the OS/2 port of the gd graphics library, release 1.8.4 (latest stable
 as of today September 20 2002). If you want to know more about gd, look at the
 readme.txt file, or go to http://www.boutell.com/gd/.

 This port supports all gd features, that is:

 . xpm read
 . png read/write
 . jpeg read/write
 . FreeType 2.x antialiased text generation
 . FreeType 1.x antialiased text generation

 To run this utilities, you'll need the following libraries:

 . zlib 1.1.4 (included for convenience)
 . freetype 1.2 (included for convenience)
 . all other libraries (xpm, png, jpeg, freetype 2.1.2) are statically linked


 WARNING: There are several incompatible version of the zlib library out there.
          This is the latest release, which fixes a security problem with the
          1.1.3 release. You might have to install the library into the same
          directory as this utilities, and "set BEGINLIBPATH=.;" to keep the
          other programs using zlib happy.


 All files can probably be lxlite'd without problems.

 You might want to check out my rexxgd library port, for an easy way to use
 gd in your projects.

 The files in the "include" and "lib" directories are only needed if you want
 to develop a project using the gd library. They can be safely deleted
 otherwise.

 If you want to compile gd 1.8.4 yourself, you can download the sources from
 http://www.boutell.com/gd/ and then use the "Makefile" in this archive. Note
 however that you'll need all the libraries listed above. If you're not
 interested in building gd yourself, you can safely delete the "Makefile".

 Enjoy!

                            Cris.

 <criguada _at_ tin _dot_ it>
