[cairo] Freetype to Cairo - newb needs help

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 15:20 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 
> > # find DLLs
> > cairo_dll    = ctypes.CDLL("libcairo.so")
> > freetype_dll = ctypes.CDLL("libfreetype.so")
> > # this makes pycairo's internals available.
> > pycairo_dll  = ctypes.PyDLL(cairo._cairo.__file__)
> 
> Yep, this is what I was pointed to by pygtk authors too.  I'm going to
> add this to cairo website.

Though, doesn't work out of the box for me as recent-enough pycairo only
exports the init_cairo symbol.  /me goes finding other ways.


> thanks,
> behdad
> 
> 
> > # specify some types
> > cairo_dll.cairo_ft_font_face_create_for_ft_face.restype =
> ctypes.c_void_p
> > pycairo_dll.PycairoFontFace_FromFontFace.restype = ctypes.py_object
> > 
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