Re: [Java-gnome-developer] cairo-java / getMatrix() problem

[David G. <dav...@ob...>]

Andrew Cowie wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-01-12 at 19:47 +0000, David Gilbert wrote:
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>>I'd like to try your patch, but so far I 
>>have not succeeded in building cairo-java from CVS.  I get this error 
>>when I execute 'make':
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>>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: 
>>cannot find -lglibjava
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>...
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>>I know nothing about this stuff, I only got cairo-java working via the 
>>Gentoo ebuild.  Any hints?
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>So we just talked this over in #java-gnome, and I have a hypothesis for
>you.
>
>-lglibjava is the library that we generate when you compile to native in
>using GCJ that is effectively the equivalent of glib.jar. In the Gentoo
>ebuilds, it only gets built if you have USE=gcj set in your USE flags
>(either /etc/make.conf, /etc/portage/packages.use or on emerge command
>line)
>
>So, my speculation is that you're not finding /usr/lib/libglibjava.so
>because the glib-java package was built USE=-gcj (either explicitly by
>you, or as a default by not setting the gcj use flag).
>
>If that is so, then when you are trying to build cairo-java from CVS,
>you have configured as --with-gcj-compile which is the default. As a
>workaround, you can probably do
>
>         $ ./configure --without-gcj-compile --prefix=/opt/blah...
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>Then it won't try and build the gcj native libraries libcairojava.so
>that is the equivalents of cairo.jar, which means you won't need
>libglibjava.so. Give it a try and let us know?
>
>[Or, you could re emerge glib-java with USE=gcj active - all assuming
>that this hypothesis is correct]
>
>Be aware that in general, if you're building something from CVS, you end
>up needing to build the dependencies from CVS. That is (probably) not
>necessary in this case, but there are one or two few bug fixes in
>glib-java since we released 0.2.1. FYI.
>
>AfC
>Bangalore
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>
Thanks Andrew, this fixed the problem for me and allowed me to make more 
progress with my CairoGraphics2D class.  I'll post a new thread to show 
you what I mean...

Regards,

Dave