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I have been trying to complete the first tutorial on the FreeType website. I am using the provided code on the website and I have added the libraries and included the proper include files but I receive 7 LNK2019 errors:

Error   LNK2019 unresolved external symbol FT_Set_Transform referenced in function main \main.obj   1       
Error   LNK2019 unresolved external symbol FT_Set_Char_Size referenced in function main \main.obj   1       
Error   LNK2019 unresolved external symbol FT_New_Face referenced in function main \main.obj    1       
Error   LNK2019 unresolved external symbol FT_Load_Char referenced in function main \main.obj   1       
Error   LNK2019 unresolved external symbol FT_Init_FreeType referenced in function main \main.obj   1       
Error   LNK2019 unresolved external symbol FT_Done_FreeType referenced in function main \main.obj   1       
Error   LNK2019 unresolved external symbol FT_Done_Face referenced in function main \main.obj   1

I found this stack over flow thread and tried what the comments suggested but that made more errors pop up.

I tried this tutorial on how to set it up but I still receive the same 7 errors. And the guy in the comments section had the same problem as me but no answers there.

genpfault
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Isaac Smith
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  1. Build the .lib file on your computer, don't use another one and read index.html in the VS project .sln directory.
  2. Be sure that the configuration when building the .lib is similar to the configuration of the project you want to add the file to...
  3. Make sure to add it to additional dependencies (Linker -> Input) NOT (Linker->General)
  4. Add the full directory (also with the freetype.lib name) AFTER %(AdditionalDependencies) macro
Mohamad Ziad Alkabakibi
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