I'm trying to get started with Freetype2 in my Xcode 4 project (on Mac OS X of course). I successfully compiled the library through the command line, and I got two dylibs and a static library. I figured I just add one of them to my project and I'll have access to the files right?

Obviously because I'm posting this, it didn't work.

#include<ft2build.h> // FILE NOT FOUND

The tutorials specified doing it like this.

#include<libfreetype/ft2build.h> // FILE STILL NOT FOUND

Nope.

#include<libfreetype.a/ft2build.h>
#include<libfreetype.dylib/ft2build.h> // HOW DID I THINK THIS WOULD WORK?

I was desperate with this attempt...

I also tried working with the header/library/framework search paths, but couldn't get Xcode to find the files

So...

Is there an additional step I didn't know about when adding a non-framework library to a project?

Could something have gone wrong when I made the libraries?

Should I be including them differently for Mac OS?

Did I not provide enough information about my problem? (I always do somehow...)

It didn't work...

I added the static library and set the header search path to "usr/local": didn't work.

I changed the path to "usr/local/lib": didn't work.

I changed the path to "usr/local/include": I think it worked once, but when I added the next include it stopped working, and it won't work even when I set it back.

Is there a way to see where the compiler is actually looking?

FIXED!!!

What I should have remembered is that my framework has a companion app to help test its functions. And it was the application failing to build when my framework was having no problems. Apparently I needed to:

1: Add the static library to my framework.

2: Add "usr/local/include" and "usr/local/include/freetype2" as the framework's header search paths.

3: Then add "usr/local/include" and "usr/local/include/freetype2" as the companion application's header search paths.

EDIT: NOW FIXED

I spoke too soon. Once I started using the library, I got errors saying: "_BZ2_bzdecompress" not found, "_BZ2_bzdecompressEnd" not found, and "_inflate" not found. This was fixed by downloading the "bzip" and "zlib" libraries and including them in my project.