Error when building cairo on linux

Bloehdian · 12-21-2012, 10:56 AM

Hello folks,

I am trying to install Cairo 1.12.8 (locally) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4.

Configure works fine with the following settings:

Code:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PRJ/gtk+/pixman-0.22.0//lib/pkgconfig
export CPPFLAGS="-I$PRJ/gtk+/freetype/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L$PRJ/gtk+/freetype/lib"

./configure --prefix=$PRJ/gtk+/cairo-1.12.8

(with $PRJ containing the path to my project-diretory residing under my home directory; freetpye is of version 2.4.10).

But when it comes to make, I get the following error messages:

Code:

cairo-ft-font.c:64:10: error: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
cairo-ft-font.c: In function '_render_glyph_outline':
cairo-ft-font.c:1377: error: implicit declaration of function 'FT_Library_SetLcdFilter'
cairo-ft-font.c:1377: warning: nested extern declaration of 'FT_Library_SetLcdFilter'
make[3]: *** [cairo-ft-font.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `$PRJ/cpn/gtk+/cairo-1.12.8/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `$PRJ/cpn/gtk+/cairo-1.12.8/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `$PRJ/cpn/gtk+/cairo-1.12.8'
make: *** [all] Error 2

(substituted $PRJ for the path spec in the "Leaving directory"-lines by hand)

Any ideas?

Cheers

smallpond · 12-24-2012, 04:10 PM

What is line 64 of $PRJ/cpn/gtk+/cairo-1.12.8/src/cairo-ft-font.c?

Bloehdian · 12-26-2012, 01:48 PM

Hi smallpond,

I attached the file.

But, to make life easier for You I made excerpts of the lines for which make throws errors:

lines 63-65:

Code:

63: #if HAVE_FT_LIBRARY_SETLCDFILTER
64: #include FT_LCD_FILTER_H
65: #endif

It seems to me (not being a c-programming expert ;-)) that FT_LCD_FILTER_H is not set and therefor the #include-directive fails (in contrast to other, similar #include-directives using constants to load header-files).

lines 1376-1378:

Code:

1376: #if HAVE_FT_LIBRARY_SETLCDFILTER
1377:	FT_Library_SetLcdFilter (library, lcd_filter);
1378: #endif

Can You help me with this?

Cheers

Bloehdian

smallpond · 12-26-2012, 06:18 PM

Try updating libXft

Bloehdian · 12-27-2012, 08:21 AM

Hi smallpond,

thx, I will try this out as soon as I have access to the equipment in the office again (which will be beginning of next year, after my holidays ;-)))

Cheers

Bloehdian

Bloehdian · 01-11-2013, 10:26 AM

Hi,

meanwhile I tried to install libxft. I tried to link it with the current version (2.10.2) of fontconfig using the following assignments:

Code:

export LDFLAGS="-L$PRJ/gtk+/fontconfig/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I$PRJ/gtk+/fontconfig/include/fontconfig"

(with $PRJ containing the path to my project-diretory residing under my home directory)

Nevertheless I get the following error messages after issueing the command line ./configure --prefix="$PRJ/gtk+/libxft":

Code:

Package xorg-macros was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xorg-macros.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xorg-macros' found
checking for XRENDER... yes
checking for FREETYPE... yes
checking for FONTCONFIG... configure: error: Package requirements (fontconfig >= 2.5.92) were not met:

Requested 'fontconfig >= 2.5.92' but version of Fontconfig is 2.4.1

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS
and FONTCONFIG_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I guess that the first error message (concerning the xorg-macros package) aims specifically at the corresponding m4-file (xorg-macros.m4). I found a copy of this file installed on the machine at hand, but I do not know how to tell configure where to find it (the file xorg-macros.pc does not exist on the machine). Any suggestions?

From my point of view the settings for LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS are correct, but configure does not know about the version pointed to by the environment. Is it possible that there is a connection between the "missing" macros file and the problem with the fontconfig version? Or am I missing out something else?

Cheers

Bloehdian