I recently got into Cairo and additionally with librsvg (to load SVG files). It works nice and I really like it. There is however one point that I prefer to hide a little more. It is the major dependency list that comes with these 2 libraries, and consequently 21 DLL files. Currently, I must add the following DLL files to the executable directory: - bzip2 - freetype6 - libcairo-2 - libcroco-0.6-3 - libexpat-1 - libfontconfig-1 - libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0 - libgio-2.0-0 - libglib-2.0-0 - libgmodule-2.0-0 - libgobject-2.0-0 - libgsf-1-114 - libpango-1.0-0 - libpangocairo-1.0-0 - libpangoft2-1.0-0 - libpangowin32-1.0-0 - libpng12-0 - libsvg-2-2 - libxml2 - libxml2-2 (equals libxml2, just had to rename it) - zlib1 And a few unrelated to Cairo / librsvg: - lua5.1 - lua51 - SDL Is there a way I can pack these? Or can move them to a different directory (a sub-directory) then the executables directory? Ultimately I would statically link these, but I fear this will be an outright pain in the **s, I was very glad the binaries were made available by GTK. Barely any of these projects has a project file attached (either VS or any other, CodeBlocks opens most), and makefiles I'm not so savvy with... FYI: I use Win7-32 with GCC 4.4.0 Any suggestions to clean up this mess? Since half the DLL's (or parts of the DLL's) I don't even need, it just requests them and must thus be there. Thank you!

Quote:Original post by kloffy
Unfortunately, I don't have a solution for packing several dynamic libraries. Personally, I'm not really bothered by having these *.dlls and it's probably the way it is supposed to be.
Anyways, sorry for being a little off topic, but seeing that you are using cairo and librsvg on windows, would you mind telling me if you ran into the same problem I did a while ago?

Hmm, I really find it very ugly this list of DLL's. But more annoying I find it that I don't even use a 10th of what all these DLL's can provide me...

As to your problem, I took your SVG and let it ran, this is the output:

Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_win32_font_map_get_font_cache: assertion `font_map != NULL' failed**Pango:ERROR:pangowin32.c:838:pango_win32_font_finalize: assertion failed: (win32font->fontmap != NULL)This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.Please contact the application's support team for more information.

Or do I need to load fonts to pango first? I'm still in the dark with the whole GTK pack.

Quote:Original post by Adam_42
Having said all that, I've never had any troubles using static linking instead of DLLs. I'd give that a try first.

No neither have I. I really favor static linking over dynamic linking, but the only downside is that it is a pain to set up for so many projects. I have to compile all of them, and from previous experience this is really a road of pain, would take me several days if not more (and pray for there to be no compiling errors)...

I will check if static linked versions for GCC exist for these packs, else I'd just have to go the hard way or don't care about the DLL's...