failing to get PangoContext

[Daniel Glassey <danglassey ntlworld com>]

Hi,
When I try and run a pretty minimal program below which just opens up a 
display and tries to get a PangoContext from it it fails with the error 
below.

Am I missing something obvious?

Regards,
Daniel

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Pango 1.2.5
Glib 2.2.3
libxft2 2.1.2
system: Debian unstable

test 0

(process:6901): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:1871: initialization 
assertion failed, use g_type_init() prior to this function

(process:6901): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 615 
(g_object_new): assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

** (process:6901): CRITICAL **: file pango-context.c: line 160 
(pango_context_set_font_map): assertion `PANGO_IS_CONTEXT (context)' failed
couldn't get a pango xft context


minimal.c
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#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pango/pangoxft.h>
static PangoContext *context = NULL;

/*  Global variables  */

Display *     display;
int           screen_num;
/*  main() function  */

int main( int argc, char * argv[] ) {
    /*  Connect to X server  */

    if ( (display = XOpenDisplay(NULL)) == NULL ) {
	fprintf(stderr, "couldn't connect to X server\n");
	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
    printf("test %d\n", DefaultScreen(display));
    if ( (context = pango_xft_get_context(display, DefaultScreen(display))) == 
NULL ) {
	fprintf(stderr, "couldn't get a pango xft context\n");
	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
		printf("got context\n");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}