[cairo] List of required DLL when distributing?

[Travis Griggs]

On Jun 3, 2010, at 11:19 PM, Mj Mendoza IV wrote:

> I tried sharing my test app to a friend. Accompanying my app is the  
> libcairo-2.dll. And since I am using the PNG and ZLib, I also  
> included libpng12-0.dll andzlib1.dll. To my surprise, my friend  
> didn't get to test my app. It was looking for libfontconfig-1.dll,  
> then libexpat-1.dll then freetype6.dll.
>
> Lucky for me, I have GIMP installed which have all these.
>
> So my question is, does Cairo really need those?!? Is there a way to  
> remove the dependency on libfontconfig, libexpat, and freetype?
>
> My test app is at: http://konsolscript.org/demo/quixie- 
> cairo-100601.zip
>

I spent a good deal of time, about 6 months ago, deriving a script  
that would download and build Cairo 1.8.8 for Windows in such a way  
that it minimized library dependencies. It was slightly larger (25%  
maybe? but still under 1 MB) than the standard GTK build, but resulted  
in a dll that needed no other DLLs and ran anywhere from Windows  
Server 2003 to Windows Vista. And built with all free tools. It's  
documented here

http://www.cairographics.org/end_to_end_build_for_win32/

I hope, in the next couple of weeks, to do it again for the current  
release, and make sure it works on Windows 7 as well. So there may be  
some updates coming.

I'd really like to be able to do the same thing for Pango as well (for  
OSX and Windows). We'll see.

--
Travis Griggs
Objologist
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright  
until you hear them speak...




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