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I am trying to build Okular from source. I checked out commit 8ab768 from Tue Jul 10 17:45:23 2012 +0100. However, FreeType seems to be missing in some path variable. Here is the output from cmake.

$ cd ~/src/okular/build
$ cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/okular-install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Debug"
-- Found Qt-Version 4.8.1 (using /usr/bin/qmake)
-- Found X11: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so
-- Found KDE 4.8 include dir: /usr/include
-- Found KDE 4.8 library dir: /usr/lib
-- Found the KDE4 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler
-- Found automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4
-- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro, use FindPkgConfig
-- Found Freetype: -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lfreetype -lz

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- The following external packages were located on your system.
-- This installation will have the extra features provided by these packages.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   * QImageBlitz - An image effects library
   * libspectre - A PostScript rendering library
   * CHM - A library for dealing with Microsoft ITSS/CHM format files
   * DjVuLibre - A library for dealing with DjVu formatted files
   * libTIFF - A library for reading and writing TIFF formatted files,
   * FreeType - A font rendering engine
   * JPEG - A library for reading and writing JPEG image files.
   * ZLib - The Zlib compression library
   * libepub - A library for reading EPub documents
   * QCA - Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- The following OPTIONAL packages could NOT be located on your system.
-- Consider installing them to enable more features from this software.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   * Poppler-Qt4 (0.12.1 or higher)  <http://poppler.freedesktop.org>
     A PDF rendering library
     Support for PDF files in okular.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR (ADVANCED)
   used as include directory in directory /home/john/src/okular/generators/dvi

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

I already tried to set the environment variable as follows.

$ export FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/freetype2/freetype

However, it seems to have no effect. I am using Ubuntu 12.04.

The repository for Okular is available via Git under git://anongit.kde.org/okular.

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  • @jorge-castro Why did you remove the tag for Ubuntu 12.04 from my question? This information could be relevant.
    – JJD
    Jul 11, 2012 at 8:36
  • You usually only need that for hardware specific bits, I've added it to the bottom of your question though Jul 11, 2012 at 12:12
  • Is that commit from okular asking for a specific version of freetype or any of the latest ones will work?. Is there a newer commit that fixes a bug related to freetype? Jul 11, 2012 at 12:24
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    @LuisAlvarado There are certain commits referring to FreeType and the build process, however, I cannot see that a specific version is required. I added a link to the Okular repository in case you like to check this yourself.
    – JJD
    Jul 11, 2012 at 16:37
  • When I get home I will compile it and test it out if that helps. Am at work ATM. Thanks for the link. Jul 11, 2012 at 18:22

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Try to use the -D switch of cmake:

cmake .. -DFREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/freetype2/freetype ...

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  • Sorry for my late reply. I was busy with my thesis the last months. Finally, with your help Okular compiles. When I start the application however it immediately crashes. I filed a bug. The same happens for the latest version e60bba5f6b.. (2012-10-08 10:29:45).
    – JJD
    Oct 8, 2012 at 21:37

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