[cairo] Building Cairo on Windows

[Dimiter 'malkia' Stanev]

Latest (git) is broken for me on Windows,
I'm using Windows WDK 7.1 to compile it.

e:\p\cairo>git log -1
commit 5c4087af810763ee98682b3bcc1c759ad8b4c27b
Author: Martin Robinson <mrobinson at igalia.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 28 10:50:16 2012 -0800

Here is what I'm getting:

cairo-win32-display-surface.c
win32/cairo-win32-display-surface.c(467) : error C2039: 'base' : is not 
a member of '_cairo_surface'
         E:\p\cairo\src\cairo-surface-private.h(51) : see declaration of 
'_cairo_surface'
win32/cairo-win32-display-surface.c(467) : warning C4090: 'function' : 
different 'const' qualifiers
win32/cairo-win32-display-surface.c(467) : error C2198: 
'_cairo_surface_map_to_image' : too few arguments for call
win32/cairo-win32-display-surface.c(502) : error C2039: 'base' : is not 
a member of '_cairo_surface'
         E:\p\cairo\src\cairo-surface-private.h(51) : see declaration of 
'_cairo_surface'
win32/cairo-win32-display-surface.c(502) : warning C4133: 'function' : 
incompatible types - from 'cairo_image_surface_t *' to 'cairo_surface_t *'
win32/cairo-win32-display-surface.c(502) : error C2198: 
'_cairo_surface_unmap_image' : too few arguments for call
../build/Makefile.win32.common:55: recipe for target 
`release/win32/cairo-win32-display-surface.obj' failed

e:\p\cairo>cat build/Makefile.win32.features
CAIRO_HAS_XLIB_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_XLIB_XRENDER_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_XCB_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_XLIB_XCB_FUNCTIONS=0
CAIRO_HAS_XCB_SHM_FUNCTIONS=0
CAIRO_HAS_QT_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_QUARTZ_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_QUARTZ_FONT=0
CAIRO_HAS_QUARTZ_IMAGE_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_SKIA_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_OS2_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_BEOS_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_DRM_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_GALLIUM_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_GLESV2_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_DIRECTFB_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_VG_SURFACE=0
CAIRO_HAS_EGL_FUNCTIONS=0
CAIRO_HAS_GLX_FUNCTIONS=0
CAIRO_HAS_FC_FONT=0
CAIRO_HAS_PTHREAD=0
CAIRO_HAS_GOBJECT_FUNCTIONS=0

CAIRO_HAS_FT_FONT=1
CAIRO_HAS_SCRIPT_SURFACE=1
CAIRO_HAS_XML_SURFACE=1
CAIRO_HAS_SVG_SURFACE=1
CAIRO_HAS_GL_SURFACE=1
CAIRO_HAS_WGL_FUNCTIONS=1
CAIRO_HAS_PNG_FUNCTIONS=1
CAIRO_HAS_PS_SURFACE=1
CAIRO_HAS_PDF_SURFACE=1
CAIRO_HAS_WIN32_SURFACE=1
CAIRO_HAS_WIN32_FONT=1
CAIRO_HAS_TEST_SURFACES=1
CAIRO_HAS_TEE_SURFACE=1
CAIRO_HAS_TRACE=1
CAIRO_HAS_INTERPRETER=1
CAIRO_HAS_SYMBOL_LOOKUP=1

On 8/22/2012 9:01 AM, Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>