diff --git a/include/osgText/Font b/include/osgText/Font
index 485410e90..d2a2bffaa 100644
--- a/include/osgText/Font
+++ b/include/osgText/Font
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ enum KerningType
   * the file will be searched again in the OS specific directories.
   */
 extern OSGTEXT_EXPORT Font* readFontFile(const std::string& filename);
-
+extern OSGTEXT_EXPORT std::string findFontFile(const std::string& str);
 
 /** Pure virtual base class for fonts.
   * Concrete implementation are the DefaultFont found in src/osgText/DefaultFont.cpp
diff --git a/src/osgText/Font.cpp b/src/osgText/Font.cpp
index 873cdbed9..ea64814ad 100644
--- a/src/osgText/Font.cpp
+++ b/src/osgText/Font.cpp
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 using namespace osgText;
 using namespace std;
 
-std::string findFontFile(const std::string& str)
+std::string osgText::findFontFile(const std::string& str)
 {
     // try looking in OSGFILEPATH etc first for fonts.
     std::string filename = osgDB::findDataFile(str);