Help with programming using libcairo

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I'm trying to work with the tutorial at http://cairographics.org/tutorial/
but cannot get anything to compile and link.

I entered their first example, and all of the cairo_* symbols show up
undefined in the link phase.

I'm compiling the tutorial's simplest example, a hello.c program, using
gcc `pkg-config --cflags --libs cairo`  -static hello.c -o hello

and it looks like the library's empty.  However, when I use nm(1) on
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/cairo.so
I see those symbols. The nm utility does not seem to work on the .so
library, even after following symlinks.

pkg-config --libs cairo
just emits "-lcairo"

I've tried inserting -L /usr/lib/i36-linux-gnu/ to no avail.

I'm not sure what else to try.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman

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