FindFreetype¶

Finds the FreeType font renderer library:

find_package(Freetype [<version>] [...])

Added in version 3.7: Debug and Release (optimized) library variants are found separately.

Imported Targets¶

This module provides the following Imported Targets:

Freetype::Freetype: Added in version 3.10.

Target encapsulating the Freetype library usage requirements, available if Freetype is found.

This module defines the following variables:

Freetype_FOUND: Boolean indicating whether (the requested version of) Freetype is found. For backward compatibility, the FREETYPE_FOUND variable is also set to the same value.
Freetype_VERSION: Added in version 4.2.

The version of Freetype found.
FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS: Include directories containing headers needed to use Freetype. This is the concatenation of FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build and FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2 variables.
FREETYPE_LIBRARIES: Libraries needed to link against for using Freetype.

Added in version 3.7: Debug and Release library variants are found separately.

The following cache variables may also be set:

FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build: The directory containing the main Freetype API configuration header.
FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2: The directory containing Freetype public headers.

This module accepts the following variables:

FREETYPE_DIR: The user may set this environment variable to the root directory of a Freetype installation to find Freetype in non-standard locations.

The following variables are provided for backward compatibility:

FREETYPE_VERSION_STRING: Deprecated since version 4.2: Superseded by the Freetype_VERSION.

The version of Freetype found.

Finding Freetype and linking it to a project target:

find_package(Freetype)
target_link_libraries(project_target PRIVATE Freetype::Freetype)