Question about TrueType rendering

[Eric Frias]

I'm trying to get winelib working on a platform whose X server doesn't 
have native support for TrueType fonts.  I've configured wine with 
freetype, but it never seems to display the TrueType fonts.  I don't 
have xfsft or xfstt installed.

Should I expect this to work?  I don't understand whether Wine uses the 
freetype library to render TrueType fonts, or if it just uses it for 
some other purpose (like getting metrics) and still depends on the font 
server to render the fonts.

I see messages like this when wine starts, so it looks like wine is 
finding my fonts, but when I Call CreateFont("Arial"), it never maps to 
a TrueType font:

trace:font:ReadFontDir Found "arial.ttf" in 
"/devel/syncad/.SynaptiCAD/mnt/c/windows/Fonts"
trace:font:AddFontFileToList Loading font file 
"/devel/syncad/.SynaptiCAD/mnt/c/windows/Fonts/arial.ttf" index 0
trace:font:AddFontFileToList fsCsb = 400001ff ffff0000/00007a87 80000000 
00000008 00000000
trace:font:AddFontFileToList Added font L"Arial" L"Regular"

Is it still necessary to run xfsft to use these fonts, or should wine be 
able to use them on its own?

Thanks,
Eric