compiling SWFtools: freetype missing?

[pe7er]

I hope that this is the right board for this question.

I am trying to install (compile from source) SWFtools at my Ubuntu 10.10 from the description at http://wiki.swftools.org/index.php/Installation

With ./configure I got a couple of errors regarding zlib and missing libraries.
Thanks to http://fixunix.com/debian/246537-nee...tml#post652955 I was able to find the missing zlib libraries using

apt-cache search --names-only zlib.*-dev
zlib1g-dev - compression library - development

Thanks to http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.com...s.general/1922 I was able to install the needed image libraries with

sudo apt-get install libpng12-dev
sudo apt-get install libgif-dev
sudo apt-get install libjpeg62-dev

However, after that I still get the error that freetype is missing

checking for missing libraries...  freetype
***************************************************
* The following headers/libraries are missing:  freetype
* Disabling pdf2swf tool...
***************************************************
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile.common
config.status: WARNING:  'Makefile.common.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/action/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating swfs/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/readers/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged

When I try to install freetype using

sudo apt-get install freetype

I get the following error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package freetype is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'freetype' has no installation candidate

I guess that the freetype library is not in the repository anymore.
How can I install it so that I can compile SWFtools ?
Thanks in advance!

[Kira_Belka]

When I try to install freetype using

sudo apt-get install freetype

I get the following error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package freetype is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'freetype' has no installation candidate

how about apt-get install freetype* ?

[pe7er]

how about apt-get install freetype* ?

Thanks very much Kira!
You've solved my error with freetype!

When I run the configure script (with "./configure") I get a warning that " 'Makefile.common.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting". Do you know if that might give problems?

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile.common
config.status: WARNING:  'Makefile.common.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
config.status: creating Makefile

After that I tried "make" and I got the error "g++: command not found".
I solved that with

sudo apt-get install g++

Now there seems to be one error that keeps me from finishing the "make" process:

cd src;make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/pe7er/swftools/swftools-0.9.1/src'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H wav2swf.o -o wav2swf ../lib/librfxswf.a ../lib/libbase.a -L/usr/local/lib -lungif -ljpeg -lz -lm  -lfreetype -lz
debug enabled, not stripping wav2swf
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H png2swf.o -o png2swf ../lib/librfxswf.a ../lib/libbase.a -L/usr/local/lib -lungif -ljpeg -lz -lm  -lfreetype -lz
png2swf.o: In function `MovieAddFrame':
png2swf.c:(.text+0x1420): undefined reference to `swf_SetJPEGBits2'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [png2swf] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pe7er/swftools/swftools-0.9.1/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Do you know how to fix that?
I'll try to find some solution with google...

[tsarv]

I solved this by typing:

make clean


and then:

make