[cairo] Compiling Cairo with MinGW under Win32

[Carl Worth]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:04:21 -0400, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> one issue I did have in use is with fontconfig
> 
> fontconfig has to cache the fonts internally every time if the cache
> file doesn't exist but fc-cache doesn't work, to solve this I created a
> custom build of fontconfig which saves the internal cache file on
> changes.

Another approach would be to use a native win32 font backend on that
platform. Stuart has made some good progress on a win32 backend for
cairo, but I think the native font backend is still one missing piece.

-Carl