----- Original Message -----
From: "Gabor Szabo" <szab...@gmail.com>
To: <win32-vanilla@perl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 5:32 PM
Subject: Looking for Cairo for Windows (to have Chart::Clicker)
Hi,
I would like to use https://metacpan.org/module/Chart::Clicker but it
needs
https://metacpan.org/module/Cairo which in turn needs
http://www.cairographics.org/
Anyone has managed to install that on Strawberry Perl?
Anyone with the right amount of tuits and experience here to
build an Alien::Cairo that would compile on Strawberry Perl?
If you have an x86 build of Strawberry Perl, a quick solution (which will
give you Cairo-1.062) is to:
ppm install http://www.sisyphusion.tk/ppm/Cairo.ppd
(The x64 builds of Strawberry Perl don't have the ppm utility - otherwise it
should also work there, too.)
However, I gather that's not what you're really looking for.
With the requisite external libraries in place, I can tell you that
Cairo-1.062 builds very easily. IIRC, the only issues I had are that EU::MM
believes that '-lfoo' means only 'libfoo.a'. That is, it doesn't allow for
the fact that the import lib might be called 'libfoo.dll.a'.
Since many of the Gtk+ import libraries do contain the '.dll', a workaround
for that has to be devised. I simply created copies of the '.dll.a' import
libraries with the '.dll' removed from their names - though there may well
be a more sophisticated fix.
Cheers,
Rob
