>> BTW, I fear that it's practically impossible (means: takes a too huge amount >> of work) to build a static lib of cairo due to its numerous dependencies. > > Actually, I did it last week :) I wanted to try cairo meta surface which is > implemented in new 1.9.4 snapshot (not release). Cairo has Makefile.Win32, > but it is for MSVC only. I've tried to use mingw. It requires msys. It was > the first time I've installed msys and (to my surprise) I've got shell > similar to cygwin. Later I've tried to run "configure" and "make", use > switches like --without-svg, install some packages, etc. > > The final step by step cook receipt is:
Wow, thanks for these instructions. As next step the same can be tried to create static libs. And as a final exercise it should also work with MSVC and MSVC x64. This is the part where real "fun" begins :/ > 1) Install mingw using TDM's GCC into c:/mingw > 2) gunzip http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.9.4.tar.gz into c:/ > 3) Install msys-1.0.11.exe (from MinGW) into c:/msys > 4) gunzip > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.23-3_win32.zip > into c:/mingw (not into c:/msys !!!) > 5) gunzip > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/glib/2.22/glib_2.22.2-1_win32.zip > into c:/mingw > 6) gunzip > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/libpng-dev_1.2.39-1_win32.zip > into c:/mingw > 7) gunzip libz-1.2.3-1-mingw32-dev.tar.gz (from Mingw zlib) into c:/mingw > (http://www.zlib.net/zlib123-dll.zip is not good for this, it is for MSVC) > 8) gunzip http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.17.2.tar.gz into c:/ > 9) msys> cd /c/pixman-0.17.2 > 10) msys> ./configure > 11) msys> make install > 12) Copy c:/msys/pixman-1/* to c:/mingw (it should be installed into c:/mingw) > 13) msys> cd /c/cairo-1.9.4 > 14) msys> ./configure > 15) msys> make > 16) Bingo! c:/cairo-1.9.4/src/.libs/libcairo-2.dll exists! Can be stripped to > make 2495KB -> 473 KB. > > > The most magic part was running ./configure. Looks more sophisticated than > linux boot messages on the screen :) I didn't have much luck with msys yet, but this seems sleek. Unfortunately the process varies a lot from project to project, so it needs to be reinvented for each lib and each compiler. (with OpenSSL, it's 'perl.exe Configure') Brgds, Viktor _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
