[cairo] Re: cairo and pycairo 0.6.0cvs win32 builds

[Steve Chaplin]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:27 -0700, Vittorio Palmisano wrote:
>         Hello,
>         you can find a win32 build for libpixman, glitz, cairo and
>         pycairo (for
>         python2.3) here:
>         
>         http://anakonda.altervista.org/archivio/
I had a look at this link, there's nothing there!

>         I have built them with mingw32, on attachment there is the
>         patch required for
>         pycairo, the command used is:
>          > python setup.py build -cmingw32
>          > python setup.py bdist_wininst
>         
>         for pycairo ./configure doesn't work, you have to add manually
>         a __init__.py file
>         before make bdist_wininst.

Why does setup.py need:
+import sys
        +if sys.platform == 'win32':
        +    include_dirs += get_include('freetype2')
        +    library_dirs += get_lib_dirs('freetype2')
        +    libraries += get_libs('freetype2') + ['gdi32','msimg32']
        
These cairo lines should pick up the freetype dependency
        +include_dirs = get_include('cairo')
        +library_dirs = get_lib_dirs('cairo')
        +libraries = get_libs('cairo')
        
If its a problem with the names 'freetype' and 'freetype2' not matching
then cairo or freetype should be patched.
        
        
I don't understand these lines:
         PyTypeObject PycairoContext_Type = {
        +#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
        +    PyObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL)
        +#else /* ! WIN32 */
             PyObject_HEAD_INIT(&PyType_Type)
        -    0,                                  /* ob_size */
        +#endif

The line "PyObject_HEAD_INIT(&PyType_Type)" is used in
Python-2.4.1/Objects/listobject.c (and many other *.c files) so it looks
like a standard Python statement, why does it need to be changed?

gcc on Linux handles it OK. mingw uses gcc so I'd expect it to handle it
just the same.


pycairo/test/test.py has:
         if __name__ == "__main__":
        -    if sys.version_info < (2,4):
        -        raise SystemExit ("Python 2.4 or higher required")
        
because it uses doctest.DocFileSuite which is new in 2.4. Does it work
for you using Python 2.3?

Steve

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