[cairo] building cairo with mingw

[Cosmin Apreutesei]

Hi Maarten, thanks for the tips. I'll try again later with the new
sources, in the meantime I'm working with cherry-picked dlls (a bit
older) from the GTK+ website. I'll try mingw on a Linux next time
(mingw+msys on windows looks even more like cross-compilation than the
other way around).

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Maarten Bosmans <mkbosmans at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/5/2 Cosmin Apreutesei <cosmin.apreutesei at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>> Anyone has a howto on building cairo with mingw32 ?
>>
>> Here's where I'm at:
>>
>> 1. installed mingw and msys (on winxp32)
>
> Generally speaking, it's much easier to cross-compile from Linux using mingw32.
> But as you seem to already have set it up under windows, this point is moot.
>
>> 2. opened up a msys console
>> 3. basic setup:
>>
>> export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
>> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
>> export CFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -I/usr/local/lib"
>
> For any pointers on which settings to use, you can look at the spec
> files used by the windows:mingw project on the OpenSUSE Build Service.
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=mingw32-cairo&project=windows%3Amingw%3Awin32
> (packages for zlib and pixman can also be found there)
>
> I just uploaded the latest cairo 1.12.2
>
>> 4. downloaded latest zlib, pixman and cairo sources
>>
>> 5. built zlib (the ./configure script doesn't work anymore tells me to
>> run the makefile directly):
>>
>>        cd zlib
>>        make -f win32/Makefile.gcc
>>        INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
>> BINARY_PATH=/usr/local/bin make -f win32/Makefile.gcc install
>>
>> 6. built pixman:
>>
>>        set -e
>>        cd pixman/pixman
>>        ./configure
>>        make
>>        make install
>>
>> Now pkg-config --list-all sees zlib and pixman.
>>
>> 6. tried to build cairo (minimalistic since I can't make it see zlib**):
>>         ** although I can see in /usr/local the files lib/libz.a,
>> include/{zlib,zconf}.h and bin/zlib1.dll, configure says there's no
>> zlib.h
>>
>>        ./configure --disable-svg --disable-png --disable-ps --disable-pdf
>> --disable-fc --disable-ft --disable-script --disable-interpreter
>>
>> Here's where I'm stuck:
>>
>> make[4]: Entering directory
>> `/x/work.lua-gui-builder/luacairo-build/build/cairo/util/cairo-missing'
>>  CC     strndup.lo
>> In file included from strndup.c:31:0:
>> cairo-missing.h:45:17: error: conflicting types for 'ssize_t'
>> c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.1/../../../../include/sys/types.h:118:18:
>> note: previous declaration of 'ssize_t' was here
>> make[4]: *** [strndup.lo] Error 1
>> make[4]: Leaving directory
>> `/x/work.lua-gui-builder/luacairo-build/build/cairo/util/cairo-missing'
>> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[3]: Leaving directory
>> `/x/work.lua-gui-builder/luacairo-build/build/cairo/util'
>> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
>> make[2]: Leaving directory
>> `/x/work.lua-gui-builder/luacairo-build/build/cairo/util'
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/x/work.lua-gui-builder/luacairo-build/build/cairo'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Try using the latest cairo release, where this is already fixed.
>
>> Any ideas?
>> Thanks,
>> Cosmin.
>
> Maarten