[cairo] pixman >= 0.9.4 is required

Adrian Johnson ajohnson at redneon.com
Thu Nov 1 05:57:58 PDT 2007


Woenkee Sohn wrote:
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> Hi,
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>  
> I'm trying to compile Cairo on Cygwin, Windows Vista.
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> When I executed ./configure, I got the following message.
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> configure: error: pixman >= 0.9.4 is required
>  
> So I installed pixman by myself again, but still same.
>  
> Did anyone have a solution about this ?
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>  
> Thank you,
>  
> Andy.

The following works for me using cygwin on Windows XP:

Apply the attached patch to make pixman build a shared library.

$ cd pixman
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make install
$ cd ../cairo
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make install

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