[cairo] Compiling for Cairo development

[Arjen Nienhuis]

Hi,

You use this for pixman, cairo and the app that needs cairo:

PREFIX=$HOME/whatever
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX

I use it to build pycairo with the latest pixman and cairo.

Groeten, Arjen

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Any recommendations for how to compile Cairo when I want to work on Cairo
> itself? This is on Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> What I would like to do is be able to modify my git checkout of Cairo and
> test the results.
>
> Right now I have to "sudo make install" after compiling any changes. I would
> prefer not to do this as I don't want to risk messing up other programs that
> use Cairo.
>
> I believe I can avoid this for Cairo itself by building my test programs
> linked directly to cairo/src/.libs and pixman/pixman/.libs. However changes
> to pixman look a lot more risky. Cairo refuses to compile unless pixman is
> installed.
>
> It would seem that Cairo developers must be doing this already, are there
> any recommended procedures?
>
> Also the instructions for compiling need to point out that pixman must be
> done first, and pixman needs to point out that autogen.sh must be run if you
> check out from git. I don't think a newbie could ever get past this to a
> compiled version of Cairo.
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