Re: Having trouble getting started - can you advise if I should perserve

No - that would be a bad assumption on my part.  When I tried compiling my
program I encountered

fatal error cairo.h no such file or directory

so I assumed I needed to download and install the libraries.

I'll look more closely at that error.

Thanks



On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Carlos López González
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Is there any reason why you need to build cairo instead of use your
> binaries and headers included in your Ubuntu distribution?
> Possibly with the packaged version of Cairo you have enough to achieve
> what you want.
> Cheers
>
>
> 2013/1/14 peter shadbolt <[email protected]>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm struggling to get Cairo compiled on an ubuntu PC.  Before I spend any
>> more time on the make problems I wanted to ask if it's worth carrying on.
>>
>> I have an existing program using an XLIB window and just want to display
>> a PNG image (could be a BMP if that's easier) in the XLIB window.  It looks
>> like the Cairo functions make it easy to read a PNG file into a surface and
>> then copy that to a XLib surface (or device - not quite sure about the
>> terminology).
>>
>> Is this feasible or just not the right way to do it.  I don;t want to
>> spend another couple of hours getting cairo compiled to only find I can't
>> use it to show an image file.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>  Shadsnz
>>
>> As an aside, here are the errors I'm getting with the make command:
>>
>> mike@mike-965GM-S2:~/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8$ make
>> make all-recursive
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mike/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8'
>> Making all in src
>> make[2]: Entering directory
>> `/home/mike/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8/src'
>> make all-am
>> make[3]: Entering directory
>> `/home/mike/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8/src'
>> CC cairo-xlib-display.lo
>> In file included from cairo-xlib-private.h:41:0,
>> from cairo-xlib-display.c:40:
>> cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:102:16: error: redefinition of 'struct
>> _XLinearGradient'
>> /usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:186:16: note: originally defined
>> here
>> cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:105:3: error: conflicting types for
>> 'XLinearGradient'
>> /usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:189:3: note: previous declaration
>> of 'XLinearGradient' was here
>> cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:111:16: error: redefinition of 'struct
>> _XCircle'
>> /usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:146:16: note: originally defined
>> here
>> cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:115:3: error: conflicting types for 'XCircle'
>> /usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:150:3: note: previous declaration
>> of 'XCircle' was here
>> cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:116:16: error: redefinition of 'struct
>> _XRadialGradient'
>> /usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:191:16: note: originally defined
>> here
>> cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:119:3: error: conflicting types for
>> 'XRadialGradient'
>> /usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:194:3: note: previous declaration
>> of 'XRadialGradient' was here
>> cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:125:16: error: redefinition of 'struct
>> _XConicalGradient'
>> /usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:196:16: note: originally defined
>> here
>> cairo-xlib-xrender-private.h:128:3: error: conflicting types for
>> 'XConicalGradient'
>> /usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h:199:3: note: previous declaration
>> of 'XConicalGradient' was here
>> make[3]: *** [cairo-xlib-display.lo] Error 1
>> make[3]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/mike/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8/src'
>> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
>> make[2]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/mike/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8/src'
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/Desktop/Peter/cairo/cairo-1.12.8'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
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>
>
>
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> Carlos
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