1. Download the PDFHummus/PDFWriter source code: https://github.com/galkahana/PDF-Writer This library only has build instructions for MSVC toolchains within Visual Studio 2017/2019. create folders PDFWriter\dependencies\lib\ and PDFWriter\dependencies\include 2. Use VCPKG to install the following libraries necessary for PDFHummus: libtiff, libjpeg, libpng, and zlib 3. Download freetype from: git://git.savannah.gnu.org/freetype/freetype2.git From the freetype2 source code root directory use Msys and run the following commands: mingw32-make setup mingw32 mingw32-make cp -r include\* ..\PDFHummus\PDFWriter\dependencies\include\ cp objs\libfreetype.a ..\PDFHummus\PDFWriter\dependencies\lib\ 4. The PDFHummus/PDFWriter source code includes a copy of the source code for LibAesgm in a folder with the same name. Go into this folder and run the following commands to generate the library: // fpermissive is needed because the author chose to implicitly switch between pointers of uint_8 and char. g++ -c -fpermissive *.o ar -cvq aesgm.lib *.o g++ -I "C:\Users\bad-p\Downloads\PDFHummus-build\PDFHummus\LibAesgm"