[cairo] pixman build on Windows/MSVC

[Gerdus van Zyl]

Re: As far as I know the configure-based system can be used on
Windows, but some people seem to not prefer it.

I don't prefer it since I have never been able to get it to work, when
working from a git checkout. Autoconf/Automake and related
dependencies are nearly impossible to get going on win32. I don't have
any experience developing on linux, which may explain it.

I am using some SCons scripts to build, it's just easier :-)

~Gerdus

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:42:18 -0400, Antoine Azar wrote:
>  > the latest commits to add pixman_version and related macros broke the build
>  > on Windows/MSVC. I'm not too familiar with autoconf and friends so I'm not
>  > sure how to setup the Makefile.win32 to handle pixman-version.h.in. Let me
>  > know if you have an idea how to fix this.
>
>  It's really quite simple. You need to arrange for a pixman-version.h
>  file to be generated that looks just like the pixman-version.h.in file
>  but with things like @PIXMAN_VERSION_MAJOR@ substituted with their
>  numeric equivalents. That is, like so:
>
>         #define PIXMAN_VERSION_MAJOR 0
>         #define PIXMAN_VERSION_MINOR 9
>         #define PIXMAN_VERSION_MICRO 7
>
>  The goal of the configure-based system is not only have to update
>  these numbers in one place. As far as I know the configure-based
>  system can be used on Windows, but some people seem to not prefer it.
>
>  Currently, those people will just have to manually do the substitution
>  above, based on the current numbers in the configure.ac file.
>
>  If the pixman maintainers want to take on the effort of always
>  updating the version number in two places, then they could decide to
>  not have a separate pixman-version.h.in file and they could just
>  manually maintain pixman-version.h, (perhaps with a test program as
>  part of distcheck that would ensure that the versions in configure.ac
>  and pixman-version.h are consistent).
>
>  I'll leave that decision up to those maintainers. (Though I imagine if
>  someone were to do the work to make that less fragile for them---that
>  is, the automated check in make distcheck---then they might be more
>  willing to accept it.)
>
>  Or maybe it's simple enough for you to just type in the three numbers
>  so you'll be happy with that.
>
>  Good luck,
>
>  -Carl
>
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