Comment 56 for bug 375323

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Christoph Buchner wrote:
> 1.1.10 is not new enough. Just follow the instructions in Adrian's post.

It doesn't really help recommending Windows users to follow instructions that say "Assuming you are on Linux the following steps …"

Instructions to build cairo from source on Windows can be found at cairo's web site [1]. Note: The recipe was written for an older release version (1.8.8) and apparently not tested with later releases or git master. The instructions do not include how to get the sources from the git repository on Windows.

Alternatively maybe the instructions how to update the cairo libs from source for Inkscape's devlibs [2] are helpful too.

I don't know if there are current cairo builds from git master for Windows available to download. The win32 devlibs [3] for Inkscape 0.48 and current Inkscape development builds [4] still use cairo 1.8.8.

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[1] <http://cairographics.org/building/>
[2] <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_Devlibs#Rebuilding_cairo>
[3] <https://launchpad.net/inkscape-devlibs>
[4] <http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?C=M;O=D>