[cairo] Errors building Cairo and Pixman under Cygwin

[John C. Turnbull]

Thanks Tor - I really appreciate the help.  I'll give those things a try and
report back.

Yes, this is all new to me and yes, it does seem difficult.  I come from a
Java world where everything just seems to work out of the box.  There is no
need to configure, make and install, you just use an IDE and graphically
select the dependencies and away you go.  Of course I appreciate that there
are platform-specific nuances in C that just don't exist with Java so I can
understand that it needs to be more complex.

I am trying to work out as much as possible on my own but it's all pretty
daunting at this early stage.

Thanks,

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cairo-bounces at cairographics.org [mailto:cairo-
> bounces at cairographics.org] On Behalf Of Tor Lillqvist
> Sent: Sunday, 12 April 2009 17:15
> To: cairo at cairographics.org
> Subject: Re: [cairo] Errors building Cairo and Pixman under Cygwin
> 
> > /bin/sh: cl: command not found
> 
> cl is the Microsoft C and C++ compiler. You need to set your PATH so
> that it is found. If you installed Visual Studio, you will find in
> Start Menu under Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 > Visual Studio Tools >
> Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt. That opens a cmd.exe window with
> environment variables preset to find the compiler, and so that the
> compiler finds its bundled headers and libraries.
> 
> But what you presumably want is to use the Microsoft compiler from
> some Unix-like shell, so that is not directly useful. Take note of
> what Visual Studio -specific environment variables. Using the "set"
> command, you will typically see something like:
> 
> [...]
> INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\VC\ATLMFC\INCLUDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\VC\INCLUDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0\include;
> LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\VC\ATLMFC\LIB;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\VC\LIB;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0\lib;
> [...]
> Path=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\VC\BIN;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\Common7\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\Common7\Tools\bin;[...]
> 
> Now all you need is to duplicate that in your Unix-like shell, and the
> "cl" command will work. Personally I use this shell function in my
> /etc/bash_profile:
> 
> function usemsvs9() {
> 
> PATH="/opt/MSVS9/VC/bin:/opt/MSVS9/Common7/IDE:/opt/MSVS9/Common7/Tools
> :/opt/winsdk61/Bin:$PATH"
>   export INCLUDE='c:\opt\MSVS9\VC\include;c:\opt\winsdk61\Include'
>   export LIB='c:\opt\MSVS9\VC\lib;\opt\winsdk61\Lib'
> }
> 
> (where /opt/MSVS9 is a "junction" for C:\Program Files\Microsoft
> Visual Studio 9.0 , easier to type, and /opt/winsdk61 is where I have
> the Windows SDK 6.1 installed.)
> 
> > Why does it have to be so difficult?
> 
> New things always appear difficult at first.
> 
> --tml
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