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Building Cairo on Windows
=========================
There are two primary ways to build Cairo on Windows. You can use a
UN*X-like setup, such as Cygwin, with the conventional configure
script shipped with Cairo releases. In this configuration, you will
build with GCC and end up with (for instance) a Cygwin-dependent
library. In theory, this technique is no different than the ordinary
build process for the Cairo library.
There are two primary ways to build Cairo on Windows. You can use a
UNIX emulation based setup, such as Cygwin or MSYS, with the
conventional configure script shipped with Cairo releases. In this
configuration, you will build with GCC and (implicitly) libtool. In
the Cygwin case you end up with a DLL that depends on Cygwin and
should be used only from Cygwin applications. In the MSYS case you end
up with a "normal" Win32 DLL that can be used either from GCC- or
Microsoft Visual C++-compiled code. In theory, this technique is no
different than the ordinary build process for the Cairo library. In
practise there are lots of small details that can go wrong.
The second way is to use a GNU-compatible make, but build using
Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler to produce native libraries. This is
the setup this README is written for.
the setup this README.win32 is written for. Also the DLL produced this
way is usable either from GCC- or MSVC-compiled code.
Tools required
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