<div id=AOLMsgPart_2_d88d31ae-3a67-4112-89fe-21f0545a00db>>Have you downloaded a cairo release and compiled it yourself? <br> <br> Not recently.  I think the only one I managed to build was one which came with a Visual Studio project.  I do not need to build with visual studio, in fact I prefer not building at all.  I need to either get this project modified so cairo builds with freetype support or figure out how to get some other environment working to do the same.<br> <br> >Sorry if it was not clear but the mingw from inkscape only gives you the environment needed to compile cairo from source.<br> <br> If this is true then it should be what I need.  The instructions I found do not provide such detail, they just have you install 'devlibs' which contain cairo binaries (sans freetype).  The only build instructions I could find are for building inkscape.  Are there instructions somewhere for using this environment to build cairo?  If so, I could use some help on doing so and adding freetype support.<br> <br> >What exactly do you want to do with a Freetype enabled cairo build?<br> <br> I am using Cairo + Pango to do text rendering on video (Cairo ARGB surfaces).  I need (so I think I have been told) FreeType support in Cairo and Pango in order to use any installed font / language.<br> <br> </div> <div id='u8CA688ECDA6C98A-A90-2469' class='aol_ad_footer'><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Get the <A title="http://www.mapquest.com/toolbar?NCID=mpqmap00030000000003" href="http://www.mapquest.com/toolbar?NCID=mpqmap00030000000003" target="_blank">MapQuest Toolbar</A>, Maps, Traffic, Directions & More!</FONT> </div>