[cairo] Having trouble getting started - can you advise if I should perserve

[peter shadbolt]

Hi,

I'm struggling to get Cairo compiled on an ubuntu PC.  Before I spend any
more time on the make problems I wanted to ask if it's worth carrying on.

I have an existing program using an XLIB window and just want to display a
PNG image (could be a BMP if that's easier) in the XLIB window.  It looks
like the Cairo functions make it easy to read a PNG file into a surface and
then copy that to a XLib surface (or device - not quite sure about the
terminology).

Is this feasible or just not the right way to do it.  I don;t want to spend
another couple of hours getting cairo compiled to only find I can't use it
to show an image file.

Many thanks
 Shadsnz

As an aside, here are the errors I'm getting with the make command:

mike at mike-965GM-S2:~/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8$ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mike/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/mike/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8/src'
make all-am
make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/mike/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8/src'
CC cairo-xlib-display.lo
In file included from cairo-xlib-private.h:41:0,
from cairo-xlib-display.c:40:
cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:102:16: error: redefinition of 'struct
_XLinearGradient'
/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:186:16: note: originally defined here
cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:105:3: error: conflicting types for
'XLinearGradient'
/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:189:3: note: previous declaration of
'XLinearGradient' was here
cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:111:16: error: redefinition of 'struct
_XCircle'
/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:146:16: note: originally defined here
cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:115:3: error: conflicting types for 'XCircle'
/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:150:3: note: previous declaration of
'XCircle' was here
cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:116:16: error: redefinition of 'struct
_XRadialGradient'
/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:191:16: note: originally defined here
cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:119:3: error: conflicting types for
'XRadialGradient'
/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:194:3: note: previous declaration of
'XRadialGradient' was here
cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:125:16: error: redefinition of 'struct
_XConicalGradient'
/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:196:16: note: originally defined here
cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:128:3: error: conflicting types for
'XConicalGradient'
/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:199:3: note: previous declaration of
'XConicalGradient' was here
make[3]: *** [cairo-xlib-display.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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