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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello, I am trying to setup PyCairo for the purposes of
using PyCha (<a href="http://www.lorenzogil.com/projects/pycha/">http://www.lorenzogil.com/projects/pycha/</a>).
I am on Windows XP with admin privileges using Python 2.6.2. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>These are the steps I have taken:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>Installed <a
href="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pycairo/1.8/">http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pycairo/1.8/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>Downloaded the binaries for zlib, libpng, and cairo
from <a href="http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html">http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>Extracted libcairo-2.dll, libpng12-0.dll, and zlib1.dll
to my python \Lib\site-packages\cairo directory<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>Extracted libcairo-2.dll, libpng12-0.dll, and zlib1.dll
to my python \DLLs directory<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>And also put them in Windows\system32 for good
measure.. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>6.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>Renamed libpng12-0.dll to libpng13.dll in all those
locations <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I have a script which just does:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>import cairo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I get the following error: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Traceback (most recent call last):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> File "{blahblahblahpath}test.py",
line 1, in <module><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> import cairo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> File
"C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\cairo\__init__.py", line 1, in
<module><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> from _cairo
import *<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>ImportError: DLL load failed: The
specified module could not be found.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Any information would be helpful. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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