[cairo] List of required DLL when distributing?

[Zoltán Turányi]

Hi Travis,

I have seen your explanation and found it very helpful, thanks.

I was wondering if it would be possible to share the resulting DLL, as well.
I do not need it any more, but it took a quite some time to set my
environment up - probably a barrier of entry to some people on Windows
(having little GNU experience).

Just a thought,
Zoltan

2010/6/4 Travis Griggs <tgriggs at cincom.com>

>
> 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.
>
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