[cairo-commit] [cairo-www] src/download.mdwn
Carl Worth
cworth at freedesktop.org
Thu Sep 13 05:46:34 PDT 2007
src/download.mdwn | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
New commits:
commit 2c1bf3a2cea3a2a936a472117e1b57c4e4ef918b
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at annarchy.freedesktop.org>
Date: Thu Sep 13 05:46:34 2007 -0700
web commit by nis.martensen: remove space, newline->space, add dot, update version number
diff --git a/src/download.mdwn b/src/download.mdwn
index 966b031..ad4ae89 100644
--- a/src/download.mdwn
+++ b/src/download.mdwn
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
Please download one of the latest [releases](/releases) in order to
get an API-stable version of cairo.
-See In-Progress Development ( [below](#development)) for details on getting and building the latest source.
+See In-Progress Development ([below](#development)) for details on getting and building the latest source.
## Binary Packages
@@ -46,10 +46,9 @@ Toolkit](http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/modules/news/).
From Daniel Keep:
-Go to [Tor Lillqvist's GTK+ for Windows
-page](http://www.gimp.org/%7Etml/gimp/win32/downloads.html)
+Go to [Tor Lillqvist's GTK+ for Windows page](http://www.gimp.org/%7Etml/gimp/win32/downloads.html).
-You want "cairo-1.4.0.zip", the binary distribution at "libpng 1.2.8",
+You want "cairo-1.4.8.zip", the binary distribution at "libpng 1.2.8",
and "Zlib 1.2.3" (you can search on those strings to find them in the
page). That _should_ be it. Just pop libcairo-2.dll, libpng13.dll and
zlib1.dll into your working directory or system PATH, and away you go!
@@ -134,6 +133,8 @@ check for a git-core package as well), you can get tar files from
There is a port of git to the [Cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com/) environment.
+There is also a [new port](http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/) based on MSYS, which makes for a somewhat more "native" Windows port.
+
For users new to Cygwin, it's fairly straight forward to install.
Simply download and run the Cygwin Setup.exe from its site.
Walk through the initial dialog boxes until you reach the "Select Packages" page.
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