[cairo] Compiling Cairo with MinGW under Win32

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Mon Nov 1 07:54:28 PST 2004


On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 14:16 +0200, Jost Boekemeier wrote:
>  --- Jack Chen <jacks_small_world at yahoo.com> schrieb: 
> > compile Cairo with the MinGW compiler under Win32.
> 
> Forget that.  MinGW is, as the name suggests, a thin
> wrapper around the win32 API.  No X11, no sockets, no
> processes, pipes, nothing.

So? Cairo doesn't use any of that stuff. I don't think any code
has been posted yet, but people have done work on both WGL
and GDI+ backends for Cairo; either would be compilable with
MingW (or msvc).

Regards,
						Owen

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