[cairo] PyCairo on OS X?

[Dethe Elza]

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Hi folks,

I'm trying to get started with pycairo.  My first attempt was to use  
easy_install, which had the result below.  This is on an Intel  
Macbook Pro, OS 10.4.7, under Python 2.4.3 (framework build).

So, should this have worked?  Is pycairo known to run on OS X (and  
Intel)?  Is there a different/preferred way I should be installing it?

Results:

$ easy_install pycairo
Searching for pycairo
Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/pycairo/
Reading http://www.cairographics.org/pycairo
Reading http://cairographics.org/releases/
Best match: pycairo 1.2.0
Downloading http://cairographics.org/releases/pycairo-1.2.0.tar.gz
Processing pycairo-1.2.0.tar.gz
Running pycairo-1.2.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/ 
easy_install-ofjRMV/pycairo-1.2.0/egg-dist-tmp-I2hbjw
package init file 'cairo/__init__.py' not found (or not a regular file)
cairo/cairomodule.c: In function 'init_cairo':cairo/cairomodule.c: In  
function 'init_cairo':
cairo/cairomodule.c:399: error: 'CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB16_565' undeclared  
(first use in this function)
cairo/cairomodule.c:399: error: (Each undeclared identifier is  
reported only once
cairo/cairomodule.c:399: error: for each function it appears in.)

cairo/cairomodule.c:399: error: 'CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB16_565' undeclared  
(first use in this function)
cairo/cairomodule.c:399: error: (Each undeclared identifier is  
reported only once
cairo/cairomodule.c:399: error: for each function it appears in.)
lipo: can't figure out the architecture type of: /var/tmp//ccXy5Rr4.out
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit  
status 1

Thanks,

--Dethe

A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few  
original ideas as possible. --Freeman Dyson