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

André Pönitz apoenitz at trolltech.com
Wed Mar 11 11:29:37 CET 2009


On Tuesday 10 March 2009 22:14:24 ext mtt24 at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
> I also checked for the lib freetype on the machine I was running qtcreator
> on:
> 
> > locate libfreetype
> /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6

You need the development packages, not just the libraries.

Try running

   apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libSM-dev libxrender-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxext-dev

Andre'



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