Minecraft Unicode Font Generator - The ultra fast generating minecraft unicode font textures utility

Disclaimer

This program comes with no warranty. You must use this program at your own risk.

Introduction

Minecraft Unicode Font Generator is a utility for generating minecraft unicode font textures.

Features

Here is a list of features:

Command-line interface
Multi-process processing

How to get source code

We maintain the source code at Github: https://github.com/codehz/minecraft-unicode-font-generator

To get the latest source code, run following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/codehz/minecraft-unicode-font-generator.git

This will create minecraft-unicode-font-generator directory in your current directory and source files are stored there.

Dependency

features	dependency
Font Rendering	FreeType2 https://www.freetype.org/
Command Line Parser	TCLAP http://tclap.sourceforge.net/
PNG File Output	PNG++ http://www.nongnu.org/pngpp/

Note

Windows Platform is NOT supported currently.

How to build

Minecraft Unicode Font Generator is primarily written in C++. It is written based on C++11/C++14 standard features. The current source code requires C++14 aware compiler. For well-known compilers, such as g++ and clang, the -std=c++11 or -std=c++0x flag must be supported.

In order to build Minecraft Unicode Font Generator from the source package, you need following development packages (package name may vary depending on the distribution you use):

If you downloaded source code from git repository, you have to install following packages to get build environment:

premake5
gnumake
gcc-c++/clang-c++

And run following command to generate Makefile:

$ premake5 gmake

You can choose clang++ as compiler by following command instead:

$ premake5 -cc=clang gmake

After Makefile is generated, run make to compile the program:

$ make

The default build target is ./bin/Debug/minecraft-unicode-font-generator.You can just run following command to get release build:

$ make config=release