<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Cxx Joe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cxxjoe@googlemail.com">cxxjoe@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
</div>Hey,<br>
<br>
I followed this guide:<br>
<a href="http://cairographics.org/end_to_end_build_for_win32/" target="_blank">http://cairographics.org/end_to_end_build_for_win32/</a><br>
(which is mostly current, make sure to get the right msys version)<br>
<br>
and made this script which nicely compiles cairo and its dependencies<br>
into three DLL files:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/infekt/source/browse/trunk/tools/cairo-maker/build.cmd" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/infekt/source/browse/trunk/tools/cairo-maker/build.cmd</a><br>
<br>
(it doesn't perform any error checking or something, but if your<br>
environment is set up correctly (which is not particularly hard at<br>
all), it works like a charm)<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Thanks. I'll give that a try.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Furthermore you may be interested in this post:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2010-September/020797.html" target="_blank">http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2010-September/020797.html</a><br>
<br>
and also in this thread about an issue which makes using Cairo 1.10.0<br>
on Win32 a bit cumbersome, currently:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2010-September/020814.html" target="_blank">http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2010-September/020814.html</a><br>
<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I read about these issues while looking for answers on compiling Cairo under Windows. I've been using Cairo 1.8.10 binaries with Visual Studio 2008 without any obvious problems, so I'll likely stick with 1.8.10 for the time being. I'd continue using the binary build of Cairo 1.8.10, but I've just discovered it's compiled against older libraries than those included with VS 2008, which I expect might cause unpredictable problems. <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">The Cairo devs don't seem to be putting too much effort into making<br>
Cairo play nice on Win32 right now, but it's a great library and<br>
certainly works very well on Windows most of the time.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Hopefully the issues with 1.10.0 will ultimately get fixed. Perhaps if
more of us Windows programmers raise our voices (or, better yet,
volunteer), we might get things working again under Win32.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hope this helps.<br>
<font color="#888888">Joe<br></font></blockquote><div><br>Thanks. <br></div></div><br>