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<h1>FreeType-2.6.2 API Reference</h1>

<h1 id="header_inclusion">FreeType's header inclusion scheme</h1>

<p>To be as flexible as possible (and for historical reasons), FreeType uses a very special inclusion scheme to load header files, for example</p>
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  #include &lt;ft2build.h&gt;                                            
                                                                   
  #include FT_FREETYPE_H                                           
  #include FT_OUTLINE_H                                            
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<p>A compiler and its preprocessor only needs an include path to find the file &lsquo;ft2build.h&rsquo;; the exact locations and names of the other FreeType header files are hidden by preprocessor macro names, loaded by &lsquo;ft2build.h&rsquo;. The API documentation always gives the header macro name needed for a particular function.</p>

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