[cairo] [MSVC] Link Error when building Static Libraries using Meson

[Naveen M K]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I made one issue
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/461

Regards,
Naveen


24.02.2021, 22:13, "Tim-Philipp Müller" <t.i.m at zen.co.uk>:
> On Tue, 2021-02-23 at 15:30 +0530, Naveen M K wrote:
>
> Hi Naveen,
>
>>  I tried building Cairo statically on MSVC 2019. I got some link
>>  errors.
>>
>>  (snip)
>>  csi-replay.c.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>>  __imp_cairo_create
>>  (snip)
>
> I haven't tested static meson builds on Windows with MSVC, so I'm just
> guessing here but I suspect it's related to the cairo_public __declspec
> import/export defines.
>
> I believe these linker errors with __imp_* happen when the app gets
> built with symbols imported via __declspec(dllimport), i.e. in
> expectation of an import lib for the dynamic library, but you're not
> actually doing dynamic linking then.
>
> It might just work if you configure meson with
>
>   -DCAIRO_WIN32_STATIC_BUILD
>
> as additional CFLAGS/c_args, and you will need to set this when you
> build your own app later too then.
>
> We might be able to handle this case better automatically in Cairo's
> meson build, so would be great if you could file an issue in gitlab
> about it at
>
>   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers
>  Tim
>
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