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Hi,
I am trying to build the vlc for windows following the steps at the Win32Compile (obtaining the toolchain) wiki.
The problem I got is:

configure: error: Package requirements (freetype2) were not met: No package 'freetype2' found

while I am running the make command in the vlc/contrib/win32

I am using ubuntu 14.04 32 bits.

Do you have ant idea how to solve the problem?

Thanks,

Gal Betser

You need to redo it and check that the freetype2.pc was correctly created in contrib/i686-*/lib/pkgconfig.

I have the same problem when build vlc-2.1.5 source code following steps at Win32Compile wiki on ubuntu server 14.04 64 bits.
The problem I got is:

configure: error: Package requirements (freetype2) were not met:
No package 'freetype2' found

The freetype2.pc is in vlc/contrib/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/pkgconfig:

prefix="/home/elliott/vlc/contrib/i686-w64-mingw32"
exec_prefix="/home/elliott/vlc/contrib/i686-w64-mingw32"
libdir="/home/elliott/vlc/contrib/i686-w64-mingw32/lib"
includedir="/home/elliott/vlc/contrib/i686-w64-mingw32/include/freetype2"

Name: FreeType 2
URL: http://freetype.org
Description: A free, high-quality, and portable font engine.
Version: 17.2.11
Requires:
Requires.private:
Libs: -L${libdir} -lfreetype
Libs.private: -lz
Cflags: -I${includedir}

Compile 2.2.0 and heck your PKG_CONFIG_PATH