[cairo] [rcairo] rcairo on win32?

[Kouhei Sutou]

Hi,

In <20051007131456.756349BE2A at www.cozmixng.org>
  "RE: [cairo] [rcairo] rcairo on win32?" on Fri, 7 Oct 2005 15:14:58 +0200,
  "Niki Estner" <n.estner at gmx.de> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kouhei Sutou [mailto:kou at cozmixng.org]
> > Subject: Re: [cairo] [rcairo] rcairo on win32?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Sorry for my late response.
> > 
> > In <20051005071915.4977273675 at gabe.freedesktop.org>
> >   "[cairo] [rcairo] rcairo on win32?" on Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:19:10 +0200,
> >   "Niki Estner" <n.estner at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > somehow assume this won't work on win32... Are there any plans to make
> > > rcairo compliable on a win32 machine with MSVC installed? Or maybe even
> > to
> > > distribute some prebuilt binaries?
> > 
> > Now, rcairo can be compilable on Win32 platform. Masao Mutoh
> > who is the manager of Ruby-GNOME2 project helps me. He tests
> > with Cygwin environment and MSVC+ and gives me some patches.
> 
> Thank you for your response. In fact, I was able to compile rcairo in the
> meantime (without cygwin), but had to do some dirty hacks:
> - I removed the "pkg_config" check in extconf.rb (couldn't find out where to
> put "CairoWin32.dll")

Is this cairo problem not rcairo?

> - I manually added "CairoWin32.lib" to the makefile
> After that, nmake gladly created a DLL named "cairo.so" that can be used
> using cairo.rb.
> But I guess that's not the way it was meant to be used...

I think so too.

Do you have any ideas to solve this problem? I have no Win32
environment...


Thanks,
--
kou