[cairo] Building Cairo on Windows

[Mohit Sindhwani]

Hi All,

I have spent quite a bit of time trying to get Cairo to build on Windows 
under MinGW (on Windows).  There are a number of different guides in 
different places, and I may have ended up in a corner basically because 
of following different guides for different steps.  My intent is to 
build the Cairo DLL, followed by Pango and then, maybe, on to Clutter.

I've installed MinGW and MSYS and followed through a few guides, most 
notably, the guide for building Spatialite:
http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-2.4.0-4/mingw_how_to.html

This gave a good introduction to making sure that some of the 
dependencies for building under MinGW were met.  In the libCairo 
section, it says that if we do "make" and "make install-strip", it 
should install both the static library and the DLL as well.

I can't seem to find the DLL anywhere (maybe, I'm looking in the wrong 
places).
* the PixMan DLL is in /usr/local/bin
* there is a libcairo.a in /usr/local/lib - but I can't find the DLL any 
place

Also, where would the .def files be created for linking against the DLL?

I do understand that life would be easier if I just took the 
pre-compiled binaries from the Gtk+ project, but I want to (first) use 
Cairo in an Embarcadero RAD Studio application (C++ Builder) and 
building the DLL myself is also a first step towards wanting to use 
Cairo in a Windows CE application (if things have improved for Win32 
compatibility in the past couple of years, especially for using fonts).

Best Regards,
Mohit.
19/8/2012 | 7:56 PM.