[cairo] librsvg and cairo on Windows

[Shixin Zeng]

Best Regards

Shixin Zeng



On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Shixin Zeng <zeng.shixin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a repositories on github to build these modules on windows with
> MSVC, based on scons, with which I've successfully compiled all
> modules for librsvg, except for fontconfig, xft2.
>
> If you look at my repositories, you'll find a scons branch for each
> module, just checkout that branch. and you'll be ready to go.
>
> #prerequisite
> 1. pkg-config, you must have a working pkg-config in your path
> 2. scons, which is written in Python, so you need python
> 3. Perl, gtk build system uses perl a lot
> 4. the site-init.py from http://github.com/zsx/super-totem
>
> The command to compile, say, cairo, would be:
> #cd cairo
> #scons --site-dir=where_your_site_init_py_is PREFIX=your_prefix DEBUG=1
> #scons --site-dir=where_your_site_init_py_is PREFIX=your_prefix DEBUG=1 install
>

forgot to specify perl PATH:
#scons --site-dir=where_your_site_init_py_is PREFIX=your_prefix
DEBUG=1 PERL=C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

I just assumed that perl was installed in the default directory, in
which case it could be left over.

> With this method, you can merge upstream changes, if my repository is
> not new enough.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Shixin Zeng
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Brandon Thomas
> <BrandonThomas08 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So after doing a bit of digging on finding a SVG parser and something
>> to render it I have come across cairo. But cario, as I understand it,
>> can't actually read svg files, but can simply output to them. But that
>> apparently is were librsvg comes in and seem to be the standard paring
>> w/ cairo. Does anyone know where I can get a a development build of
>> the latest stable version of librsvg for windows? The librsvg website
>> doesn't have a version that is easy to build on Windows, they all use
>> makefiles, and I don't know how to use makefiles in Visual Studio.
>> Also I didn't see anywhere that already compiled it to a dll and
>> provided the headers in a nice development build of librsvg like the
>> gtk site provides for cairo. So does anyone know where I can get the
>> latest dll of librsvg  or have any pointers on how to build it myself?
>>
>> Or if what I am saying is complete nonsense, please say so.
>>
>> Thanks
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