Re: Ubuntu freetype link problem PDFKit

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Wolfgang Lux wrote:
> As Fred mentioned the output of freetype-config is correct (on my Ubuntu 16.04 
> there's /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu.conf, which makes sure that 
> libfreetype should be found). If you get linking errors then I'd suspect that 
> either you haven't installed the libfreetype6-dev package (the .so file doesn't 
> contain any symbols, they are present in the corresponding .a file, which is 
> part of the -dev package) or there's an issue with the order of libraries on 
> the command line.

I checked, and /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu is present in ld.etc.conf 
(actually in a subdirectory with several configuration files for 
multiarch support)

I have .so and .a files, as are headers: the dev package is installed.

I can link PDFKit without issues, what I want is to embed the library 
path into PDFKit, so that subsequently using PDFKit is a matter of 
linking to PDFKit and not additionally adding -lfreetype
That way, a user doesn't have to know about the interals of PDFKit, or 
in this case GWorkspace or all other  apps would need to add -lfreetype 
when running configure and application build.

Riccardo