[cairo] mingw instructions

[Dave Yeo]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:10:33 +0200, Gerdus van Zyl wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Does anyone have instructions/tips on building cairo on mingw/msys on
>windows? It's been a real struggle to get all the dependencies and
>dependencies of dependencies sorted out. Cairo compiles but only
>produces libcairo.a and libcairo.la and not the dll i require. The
>closest I can make out is the linker can't find some files of the
>libpng,win32apis etc because it gives a warning about unresolved
>symbols. (but libpng is found by pkgconfig and in lib directory) I am
>unfortunely an amateur when it comes to compiled languages, so i am
>stuck.
> Test/examples fail in the make because there is no rule about ".dep"
>in test or something.
>
>The reason I am trying to compile myself is that cairo/pycairo
>binaries available on the net (that i know of) is generally a few
>releases behind and does not include for example glitz, that i am very
>interested in. (aside glitz compiles with no complaints)
>

One thing I found on OS/2 (somewhat similar to mingw) was that all
dependencies had to be compiled as DLLs or I had similar problems about
unresolved symbols not allowed or something (been awhile) in shared
libraries and only got an a.out lib.
Dave