can't compile wine on 64 bit ubuntu

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Jordan Camp picture Jordan Camp · Nov 22, 2014 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

I have been trying to compile wine on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit and I can't for the life of me figure out what package dependency I'm missing here. I followed along with the guide on winehq and was able to complete it fine... however now I'm trying to compile a patched version of wine so I can run starcraft 2 with better performance. When I run ./configure i get the following error

checking for freetype/freetype.h... no
checking for freetype/ftglyph.h... no
checking for freetype/fttypes.h... no
checking for freetype/tttables.h... no
checking for freetype/ftsnames.h... no
checking for freetype/ttnameid.h... no
checking for freetype/ftoutln.h... no
checking for freetype/ftwinfnt.h... no
checking for freetype/ftmodapi.h... no
checking for freetype/ftlcdfil.h... no
checking for FT_TrueTypeEngineType... no
configure: error: FreeType 32-bit development files not found. Fonts will not be built.
Use the --without-freetype option if you really want this.

I've tried installing libfreetype6-dev:i386 and libfreetype6:i386 and many other variations but always get the same error message after ./configure . any ideas?

Answer

Jordan Camp picture Jordan Camp · May 11, 2015

libfreetype6-dev is the package that I needed. The issue is that this package installs the header files needed for the compilation in /usr/include/freetype2 but the configure script is looking for the headers in /usr/include/freetype . So the solution I found was to add a symbolic link in /usr/include that points to /usr/include/freetype2 that is called freetype. This can be done in the terminal like this.

sudo ln -s /usr/include/freetype2 /usr/include/freetype

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