Re: [gtk-osx-users] Pango fails on cairo-gobject

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Nov 5, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Timo <timomlists gmail com> wrote:

> Compiling Pango fails with following error:
> Package cairo-gobject was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo-gobject.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'cairo-gobject' found
> In file included from <stdin>:4:
> /Users/timo/gtk/source/pango-1.32.1/pango/pango-impl-utils.h:26:18: error: glib.h: No such file or directory
> /Users/timo/gtk/source/pango-1.32.1/pango/pango-impl-utils.h:27:25: error: glib-object.h: No such file or directory
> Error while processing the source.
> make[4]: *** [Pango-1.0.gir] Error 1
> make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> I can indeed not find cairo-gobject, so searching a bit led me to this:
> bash-3.2$ cd gtk/source/cairo-1.12.6/util/cairo-gobject/
> bash-3.2$ make
>   CC     libcairo_gobject_la-cairo-gobject-enums.lo
> In file included from cairo-gobject-enums.c:8:
> cairo-gobject.h:183:3: error: #error Cairo was not compiled with support for GObject
> # Snipped missing symbols etc...
> 
> 
> config.log contains the following:
> configure:33503: checking for cairo's gobject functions feature
> configure:33521: checking for GOBJECT
> configure:33528: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "$gobject_REQUIRES"
> Package gobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gobject-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gobject-2.0' found
> Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'glib-2.0' found
> configure:33531: $? = 1
> configure:33544: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "$gobject_REQUIRES"
> Package gobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gobject-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gobject-2.0' found
> Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'glib-2.0' found
> configure:33547: $? = 1
> No package 'gobject-2.0' found
> No package 'glib-2.0' found
> configure:33574: result: no
> configure:33589: checking whether cairo's gobject functions feature could be enabled
> configure:33591: result: no (requires gobject-2.0 glib-2.0 http://download.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/)
> 
> 
> I'm a bit lost here. Should I pass some extra arguments to Cairo? I checked the paths in config.log and made sure gobject-2.0.pc and glib-2.0.pc exist.

No, the problem is that you managed to not build glib. *Nothing* is going to work without glib, so you need to dig deeper and see why.

Regards,
John Ralls