Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] libsvg error , Errors in compiling Tux Paint for windows

[John P. <jo...@jo...>]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:11:01AM +0800, Shih-Chin Yang wrote:
> Hi, John:
> Thanks for your update. I succeeded in compiling libsvg.
> However, I encountered another problem for cairo in ./configure steps
> 
> I got the following error at the end
> ==========================
> .................................
> checking for cos in -lm... yes
> checking for compress in -lz... yes
> checking zlib.h usability... yes
> checking zlib.h presence... yes
> checking for zlib.h... yes
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... no
> configure: error: pkg-config >=  required but not found (http://pkgconfig.f
> sktop.org/)
> ==========================

MinGW doesn't have pkg-config support by default and I couldn't get it
to work so this patch:

http://johnnypops.demon.co.uk/mingw/cairo-1.4.2-zlib-png-dll.patch

removes it from the config.in file (template file for configure) along
with fixing up a load of other things. Running 'autoconf' after patching
should remove this dependency.

The patch (probably) only works for this snapshot:

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.2.tar.gz

My guess is you didn't run autoconf after patching.

> Then I followed the instruction in
> http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/pkg-config
I couldn't get this to work,

regards,
John.