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Andriy Drozdyuk
Andriy Drozdyuk

Reputation: 61041

How to install cairo on Windows

For the life of me I can't figure out how to install cairo on Windows!

I need it for Haskell Charts, but when I follow setup instructions and get to running: 

cabal install gtk

I get this error:

Linking dist/setup-wrapper\setup.exe ...
Configuring glib-0.12.2...
setup.exe: The program pkg-config version >=0.9.0 is required but it could not
be found.
cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:
cairo-0.12.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
gio-0.12.2 depends on glib-0.12.2 which failed to install.
glib-0.12.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
gtk-0.12.2 depends on glib-0.12.2 which failed to install.
pango-0.12.2 depends on glib-0.12.2 which failed to install.

If I go to cairo site, they don't have anywhere any kind of setup. Just a bunch of dlls that I don't know what to do with (how to make Haskell see them).

Any help appreciated, as I've been trying to install the damn thing for hours!

Upvotes: 11

Views: 28106

Answers (4)

root
root

Reputation: 2428

The 64-bit GTK3 installer worked for me. In the installer, I kept the "Set up PATH environment variable" checkbox checked, as recommended in this otherwise outdated guide.

Not important: Before that, I tried the 32-bit GTK2 installer as recommended in the cairocffi documentation under "Installing cairo on Windows", but that resulted in cannot load library 'C:\Program Files (x86)\GTK2-Runtime\bin\libcairo-2.dll': error 0xc1, and then I found this WeasyPrint issue (WeasyPrint apparently uses cairo and is from the same company as cairocffi and CairoSVG), which led me to the documentation, which links to the 64-bit version linked above.

Upvotes: 0

markasoftware
markasoftware

Reputation: 12652

Since the answers on this page have been posted, GTK has stopped publishing Windows binaries. A third party compiles up-to-date dlls here: http://www.tarnyko.net/dl/gtk.htm

Upvotes: 1

MathematicalOrchid
MathematicalOrchid

Reputation: 62818

I'm not 100% sure, but you might need to do

cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools

before you can install gtk itself.

Upvotes: 0

Daniel Wagner
Daniel Wagner

Reputation: 152707

You need to download the all-in-one bundle available here. You can discover this link yourself by visiting http://www.gtk.org/ and clicking "Download", then "Windows (32-bit)". Extract it to a directory that doesn't include spaces, and add that directory to your PATH. You will also need to cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools before you attempt to cabal install gtk.

These instructions can also be found on the gtk2hs website.

Upvotes: 5

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