[cairo] Cairomm examples / autotools

[Murray Cumming]

> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
>
>> Now that we have multiple surface types wrapped in cairomm, I'm
>> working on adding a few examples / tests for different surfaces (e.g.
>> pdf, ps, svg, etc).  There already exists a single example (in the
>> examples/ directory) for writing a surface to png and it works fine.
>>
>> The basic setup is that there is a subdirectory for each example
>> program.  These example programs link to the .la file in the cairomm
>> directory.
>>
>> When I try to create a pdf example (attached is a patch to the
>> configure.in and examples/Makefile.am files and a tar.gz file to
>> extract into the examples/ directory), it compiles cleanly and without
>> complaint.  When I run the program, however, i get the following
>> error:
>>
>> $ ./example_pdf_file
>> /home/jonathon/.cvs/gnome2/cairomm/examples/pdf-surface/.libs/lt-example_pdf_file:
>> symbol lookup error:
>> /home/jonathon/.cvs/gnome2/cairomm/cairomm/.libs/libcairomm-1.0.so.0:
>> undefined symbol: cairo_pdf_surface_create
>>
>> however, if I install cairomm (instead of linking to the .la file in
>> the working directory), and then build the example manually with the
>> following command:
>> $  g++ `pkg-config --cflags --libs cairomm-1.0` main.cc
>>
>> I get:
>> $ ./a.out
>> Wrote PDF file "image.pdf"
>>
>> Can anybody point me in the right direction?  What am I doing wrong
>> here?
>
> You need to do example_pdf_file_LDADD = path-to-cairomm.la such
> that libtool detects what you are doing and create a wrapper for
> example_pdf_file to set correct LD_LIBRARY_PATH...  I have no
> idea how the png_file example is working without it.

Yes, the
include $(top_srcdir)/examples/Makefile.am_fragment
line should do that:
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairomm/examples/png_file/Makefile.am?view=markup

Just check it in and ask me to fix it if you don't manage it.


Murray Cumming
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