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

[mtt24 at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu]

Hi,

Thank you for your help. I installed the libfreetype-dev package and it
looks like it is finally working.

Thanks!

Tanveer


> mtt24 at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
>> 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'
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> **********************************************
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Did you install the libfreetype-dev package as well?
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