[cairo] Building Cairo on Windows

[Mohit Sindhwani]

Hi All,

Just a bump since it's been a few days.. hope that someone is 
successfully building Cairo on Windows under MinGW :)

Best Regards,
Mohit.
23/8/2012 | 12:01 AM.

On 19/8/2012 8:05 PM, Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
> 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.
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