diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 448c6a379..e6326a00c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.3)
 
 # define a macro that helps defining an option
 macro(sfml_set_option var default type docstring)
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/FindFreetype.cmake b/cmake/Modules/FindFreetype.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e3f3f701
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/Modules/FindFreetype.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+#.rst:
+# FindFreetype
+# ------------
+#
+# Locate FreeType library
+#
+# This module defines
+#
+# ::
+#
+#   FREETYPE_LIBRARIES, the library to link against
+#   FREETYPE_FOUND, if false, do not try to link to FREETYPE
+#   FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS, where to find headers.
+#   FREETYPE_VERSION_STRING, the version of freetype found (since CMake 2.8.8)
+#   This is the concatenation of the paths:
+#   FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build
+#   FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2
+#
+#
+#
+# $FREETYPE_DIR is an environment variable that would correspond to the
+# ./configure --prefix=$FREETYPE_DIR used in building FREETYPE.
+
+#=============================================================================
+# Copyright 2007-2009 Kitware, Inc.
+#
+# Distributed under the OSI-approved BSD License (the "License");
+# see accompanying file Copyright.txt for details.
+#
+# This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
+# implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+# See the License for more information.
+#=============================================================================
+# (To distribute this file outside of CMake, substitute the full
+#  License text for the above reference.)
+
+# Created by Eric Wing.
+# Modifications by Alexander Neundorf.
+# This file has been renamed to "FindFreetype.cmake" instead of the correct
+# "FindFreeType.cmake" in order to be compatible with the one from KDE4, Alex.
+
+# Ugh, FreeType seems to use some #include trickery which
+# makes this harder than it should be. It looks like they
+# put ft2build.h in a common/easier-to-find location which
+# then contains a #include to a more specific header in a
+# more specific location (#include <freetype/config/ftheader.h>).
+# Then from there, they need to set a bunch of #define's
+# so you can do something like:
+# #include FT_FREETYPE_H
+# Unfortunately, using CMake's mechanisms like include_directories()
+# wants explicit full paths and this trickery doesn't work too well.
+# I'm going to attempt to cut out the middleman and hope
+# everything still works.
+find_path(
+  FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build
+  ft2build.h
+  HINTS
+    ENV FREETYPE_DIR
+  PATHS
+    /usr/X11R6
+    /usr/local/X11R6
+    /usr/local/X11
+    /usr/freeware
+    ENV GTKMM_BASEPATH
+    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\gtkmm\\2.4;Path]
+    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\gtkmm\\2.4;Path]
+  PATH_SUFFIXES
+    include/freetype2
+    include
+    freetype2
+)
+
+find_path(
+  FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2
+  NAMES
+    freetype/config/ftheader.h
+    config/ftheader.h
+  HINTS
+    ENV FREETYPE_DIR
+  PATHS
+    /usr/X11R6
+    /usr/local/X11R6
+    /usr/local/X11
+    /usr/freeware
+    ENV GTKMM_BASEPATH
+    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\gtkmm\\2.4;Path]
+    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\gtkmm\\2.4;Path]
+  PATH_SUFFIXES
+    include/freetype2
+    include
+    freetype2
+)
+
+find_library(FREETYPE_LIBRARY
+  NAMES
+    freetype
+    libfreetype
+    freetype219
+  HINTS
+    ENV FREETYPE_DIR
+  PATHS
+    /usr/X11R6
+    /usr/local/X11R6
+    /usr/local/X11
+    /usr/freeware
+    ENV GTKMM_BASEPATH
+    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\gtkmm\\2.4;Path]
+    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\gtkmm\\2.4;Path]
+  PATH_SUFFIXES
+    lib
+)
+
+# set the user variables
+if(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build AND FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2)
+  set(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS "${FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build};${FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2}")
+  list(REMOVE_DUPLICATES FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS)
+endif()
+set(FREETYPE_LIBRARIES "${FREETYPE_LIBRARY}")
+
+if(EXISTS "${FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2}/freetype/freetype.h")
+  set(FREETYPE_H "${FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2}/freetype/freetype.h")
+elseif(EXISTS "${FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2}/freetype.h")
+  set(FREETYPE_H "${FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2}/freetype.h")
+endif()
+
+if(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2 AND FREETYPE_H)
+  file(STRINGS "${FREETYPE_H}" freetype_version_str
+       REGEX "^#[\t ]*define[\t ]+FREETYPE_(MAJOR|MINOR|PATCH)[\t ]+[0-9]+$")
+
+  unset(FREETYPE_VERSION_STRING)
+  foreach(VPART MAJOR MINOR PATCH)
+    foreach(VLINE ${freetype_version_str})
+      if(VLINE MATCHES "^#[\t ]*define[\t ]+FREETYPE_${VPART}[\t ]+([0-9]+)$")
+        set(FREETYPE_VERSION_PART "${CMAKE_MATCH_1}")
+        if(FREETYPE_VERSION_STRING)
+          set(FREETYPE_VERSION_STRING "${FREETYPE_VERSION_STRING}.${FREETYPE_VERSION_PART}")
+        else()
+          set(FREETYPE_VERSION_STRING "${FREETYPE_VERSION_PART}")
+        endif()
+        unset(FREETYPE_VERSION_PART)
+      endif()
+    endforeach()
+  endforeach()
+endif()
+
+
+# set FREETYPE_FOUND to TRUE if all listed variables are TRUE
+if(FREETYPE_LIBRARY AND FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS AND FREETYPE_VERSION_STRING)
+  set(FREETYPE_FOUND TRUE)
+else()
+  set(FREETYPE_FOUND FALSE)
+endif()
+
+mark_as_advanced(
+  FREETYPE_LIBRARY
+  FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2
+  FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build
+)
diff --git a/src/SFML/Graphics/CMakeLists.txt b/src/SFML/Graphics/CMakeLists.txt
index b094aa3f8..dd45c0953 100644
--- a/src/SFML/Graphics/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/SFML/Graphics/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -85,21 +85,17 @@ include_directories("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/stb_image")
 # let CMake know about our additional graphics libraries paths
 if(SFML_OS_WINDOWS)
     set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/jpeg")
-    set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/libfreetype/windows")
-    set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/libfreetype/windows/freetype")
+    set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/freetype2")
 elseif(SFML_OS_MACOSX)
     set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/jpeg")
-    set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/libfreetype/osx")
-    set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/libfreetype/osx/freetype2")
+    set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/freetype2")
     set(CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/libs-osx/Frameworks")
 elseif(SFML_OS_IOS)
     set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/jpeg")
-    set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/libfreetype/ios")
-    set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/libfreetype/ios/freetype2")
+    set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/freetype2")
 elseif(SFML_OS_ANDROID)
     set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/jpeg")
-    set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/libfreetype/android")
-    set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/libfreetype/android/freetype")
+    set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extlibs/headers/freetype2")
 endif()
 
 # find external libraries