[cairo] Installing Cairo on Macbook 10.6.3

[Alexander Shulgin]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 03:49, David Arnold <dwarnold45 at suddenlink.net> wrote:
> All,
>
> I need help installing Cairo on my Macbook Pro running 10.6.3.
>
> For pixman-0.18.0:
>
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
>
> Went well.
>
> For cairo-1.8.10:
>
> ./configure
>
> had problems. First attempt did not create a makefile and ended with:
>
> checking for cairo's PNG functions feature...
> configure: WARNING: Could not find libpng in the pkg-config search path
> checking whether cairo's PNG functions feature could be enabled... no
> configure: error: recommended PNG functions feature could not be enabled
>
> I found somewhere on the web the following advice:
>
> export png_REQUIRES="libpng"

Huh?  This is pretty suspicious.

> Now ./configure ends with:
>
> cairo (version 1.8.10 [release]) will be compiled with:
>
> The following surface backends:
>  Image:         yes (always builtin)
>  Xlib:          yes
>  Xlib Xrender:  yes
>  Quartz:        yes
>  Quartz-image:  no (disabled, use --enable-quartz-image to enable)
>  XCB:           no (disabled, use --enable-xcb to enable)
>  Win32:         no (requires a Win32 platform)
>  OS2:           no (disabled, use --enable-os2 to enable)
>  PostScript:    yes
>  PDF:           yes
>  SVG:           yes
>  glitz:         no (disabled, use --enable-glitz to enable)
>  BeOS:          no (disabled, use --enable-beos to enable)
>  DirectFB:      no (disabled, use --enable-directfb to enable)
>
> The following font backends:
>  User:          yes (always builtin)
>  FreeType:      no (requires fontconfig)
>  Win32:         no (requires a Win32 platform)
>  Quartz:        yes
>
> The following functions:
>  PNG functions: yes
>
> And the following internal features:
>  gcov support:  no
>  test surfaces: no (disabled, use --enable-test-surfaces to enable)
>  ps testing:    yes
>  pdf testing:   no (requires poppler-glib >= 0.9.2)
>  svg testing:   no (requires librsvg-2.0 >= 2.15.0)
>
> But "make" ends with:
>
> david-arnolds-macbook-pro-2:cairo-1.8.10 darnold$ make
> make  all-recursive
> Making all in src
> make  all-am
> ../doltcompile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -I. -I/usr/local/include/pixman-1                          -g -O2 -MT cairo-xlib-display.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/cairo-xlib-display.Tpo -c -o cairo-xlib-display.lo cairo-xlib-display.c
> cairo-xlib-display.c:41:35: error: fontconfig/fontconfig.h: No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [cairo-xlib-display.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> Any suggestions to get this to compile?

Either install X11 from "Optional installs" package on Snow Leopard
DVD or ./configure --without-x

Hope this helps.
--
Alex