i don't. i install the dev package of my distro and didn't run into a case where it's not available yet. also, i make fake packages for my project with only dependencies, to install those things, so i can uninstall that fake package when i don't need the project any more and don't have to keep track what dev deps on my system are still required
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i don’t. i install the dev package of my distro
I think you cracked the code. I was really curious what distribution this person was using that didn't have freetype, but missing installing the -dev package makes perfect sense and I definitely remember doing that and tearing my hair out trying to figure out why I couldn't compile some thing that needed dev headers.
OP, install libfreetype-dev or its equivalent on your system. 90% chance that fixes it.
I really love the --virtual of Alpine's apk system.
Can you just make some symlinks in usr/lib and usr/include? Or am I just not understanding the problem correctly?
I definitely wouldn't recommend changing every include.
Can you configure freetype to go straight into /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include instead, with no freetype/? That would be how I would attack it. Most libraries are going to have a way to configure them to go where you want them to go. GNU Stow can be very useful here to keep things organized.
What distro are you using that doesn't have freetype available? That seems strange.
Can you configure freetype to go straight into /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include instead, with no freetype/
Or create a symlink?
That is what GNU Stow does, with a lot of package-management-like helper commands which make it all organized and convenient.
Actually that worked for this one. Thanks.
Edit: never mind. I don't know why it wasn't giving me errors as first but it started not compiling again. False alarm.
Void. It's like arch except that in exchange for stuff breaking less often, it's just compatible with a lot less stuff. There is no way to get virtual box running at all and the repository is really lackluster. Frankly it's not a worthwhile tradeoff.
Remove the locally compiled install and install freetype-devel, and see if that works.
That worked but now I get a bunch of undefined reference errors. I tried adding the path of the libfreetype.a file to the makefile a few different ways but it's not changing anything. The line I tried adding everywhere was "-L/usr/lib/libfreetype.a".
Edit: actually "-lfreetype" made it work.
That sounds perfect. Installing the system -devel package and -lfreetype is the right way to do it. Glad you got it working!