VS_CODE/PDFHummus-minGW-tools/notes.txt

Today - we compiled all the .cpp files into object files. 
The PDFHummus codebase did not have a build for anything other than
MSVC. Tried to compile PDFWriter.cpp, but there were a huge amount of missing
dependencies (both in source type declarations & missing include files).

Previously, these were handled in the build tool, so we had to create a new build tool
that also handled these problems. We found that nearly all (127) out of 152 source files,
could be compiled without any dependency problems but that left 25 files to hunt down.
Each of the files was put into a Makefile along with special compile flags to get them to 
compile successfully. 
At this point freetype2 has been compiled, but the other external libraries(e.g. libpng, zlib, libjpg, tiff, etc) need to be compiled so that we can link together an executable.


9 April 2020
Libaesgm had no instructions for putting together the library.
we made object files from the source files and used an archiver to put them together.
we put together a strategy on where to put the unsupported (vcpkg) libraries that are needed by PDFWriter.
Next time, we will use the previous created makefile as well as these libraries to compile PDFHummus.
We dumped all of the steps to get to this point into a file so we can clean up these build instructions:
README.txt