[Qt-creator] qtcreator shows error during compilation: cannot find -lfreetype

[mtt24 at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu]

Hi,

I am new to QT and got stuck building a simple project on qtcreator
shipped with qt4.5.0. Below is the compile output when I build the
program:

Running build steps for project hello...
Creating gdb macros library...
Configuration unchanged, skipping QMake step.
Starting: /usr/bin/make debug -w
make: Entering directory `/ncf/tools/mtt24/cplusplus/qtprograms/hello'
/usr/bin/make -f Makefile.Debug
make[1]: Entering directory `/ncf/tools/mtt24/cplusplus/qtprograms/hello'
g++ -m64 -Wl,-rpath,/ncf/tools/mtt24/qt/qt/lib -o hello debug/main.o   
-L/ncf/tools/mtt24/qt/qt/lib -L/usr/lib -lQtGui
-L/ncf/tools/mtt24/qt/qt/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -pthread -lfreetype
-lgobject-2.0 -lSM -lICE -pthread -pthread -lXrender -lfontconfig -lXext
-lX11 -lQtCore -lm -pthread -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0 -ldl -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfreetype
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: Leaving directory `/ncf/tools/mtt24/cplusplus/qtprograms/hello'
make[1]: *** [hello] Error 1
make: *** [debug] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/ncf/tools/mtt24/cplusplus/qtprograms/hello'
Exited with code 2.
Error while building project hello
When executing build step 'Make'





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I also checked for the lib freetype on the machine I was running qtcreator
on:

> locate libfreetype
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.16
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/CHANGES.gz
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/ChangeLog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/FTL.TXT.gz
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/PATENTS
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/ft2faq.html
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/pcf
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/pcf/README
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libfreetype6.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libfreetype6.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libfreetype6.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libfreetype6.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libfreetype6.shlibs


I am a little lost on how to fix this issue. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Tanveer