(OT) installing cairo library

krishi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi folks,
I am trying to install the cairo-1.4.10 on solaris9.
While executing make command, I am getting an error of the following type :

cairo-xlib-surface.c:152: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
cairo-xlib-surface.c:83: warning: braces around scalar initializer
cairo-xlib-surface.c:83: warning: (near initialization for `identity'
In file included from cairo-xlib-surface.c:43:
cairo-xlib-surface-private.h:91: error: syntax error before "XTransform"
cairo-xlib-surface-private.h:91: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union

These are just some of the errors.
Actually I am repeatedly getting these type of errors on almost every line of cairo-xlib-surface.c file.
Any help will be very welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Krishi.

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Re: (OT) installing cairo library by Joost (Canon) on Dec 13, 2007 at 11:17 UTC
I suggest you try the cairo mailing list, since this has nothing to do with perl. http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/ this entry may or may not help Update: in case you're using sun's compiler; you may want to try using gcc instead. Other than that, ask the guys at the mailing list. They should know. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: (OT) installing cairo library by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 13, 2007 at 10:52 UTC
Actually I am repeatedly getting these type of errors on almost every line of cairo-xlib-surface.c file. Any help will be very welcome Not sure that this can be categorised as "help", but note that the error occurs in cairo-xlib-surface-private.h, not cairo-xlib-surface.c. Do you get any previous warnings that a .h file could not be found ? Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^2: (OT) installing cairo library by krishi (Novice) on Dec 13, 2007 at 11:01 UTC
Hi Rob, No, I didn't get any warnings that .h file not found. But I got this error: cairo-xlib-surface-private.h:91: error: syntax error before "XTransform" cairo-xlib-surface-private.h:91: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union cairo-xlib-surface.c:83: error: syntax error before "identity" cairo-xlib-surface.c:83: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:83: warning: braces around scalar initializer cairo-xlib-surface.c:83: warning: (near initialization for `identity') cairo-xlib-surface.c:84: warning: braces around scalar initializer And so on for almost every line in cairo-xlib-surface.c . Thanks, Krishi	[reply]
Re^3: (OT) installing cairo library by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 13, 2007 at 11:27 UTC
No, I didn't get any warnings that .h file not found. Well, that's odd. Line 91 simply contains: `XTransform xtransform;` [download] which is certainly not a syntax error if a header file that defines the XTransform type was found. And Google doesn't return anything for "cairo-xlib-surface-private.h:91". I think Joost is right :-) Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]