Help with programming using libcairo

[Tony Arnold]

Kevin,

On 16/05/13 22:35, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 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.

Can you post your example program somewhere?

Regards,
Tony.
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