does not compile on Windows 10 using --with_pango

[dboleslawski]

i think after fighting with this problem for hours I need another pair of eyes looking at this to tell me i'm not going crazy

Issue or Feature

trying to compile node-canvas with pango throws a bunch of error about not finding the file pango/pangocairo.h although it is located at C:\GTK\include\pango-1.0\pango

Steps to Reproduce

node-gyp rebuild --with_pango

...
c:\users\user\desktop\node-canvas-test\node_modules\canvas\src\Canvas.h(17): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'pango/pangocairo.h': No such file or directory (compiling source file ..\src\CanvasPattern.cc) [C:\Users\user\Desktop\node-canvas-test\node_modules\ca nvas\build\canvas.vcxproj]
... and so on

Your Environment

• Version of node-canvas: 1.6.5
• Environment: node.js v6.10.1 on Win 10 (installed using nvm-windows)

all help is greatly appreciated

[chearon]

I think the Windows build is hard-coded not to use Pango, did you edit the binding.gyp?

[dboleslawski]

yep, binding.gyp also includes conditions about pango for windows, although comments are dropped about freetype not running on win

maybe the binding.gyp is missing some lines to get the including of pango running. sadly im not too familiar with compiling on win to get this running..

[chearon]

I've done it before but I don't remember the details, I don't think passing --with-pango does anything, though, you need to have the WITH_PANGO macro set to enable the relevant sections of code. And then you have to the .lib files for Pango and all of its dependencies (there are several) to the gyp file.

This is why I made canvas-prebuilt, which does have a windows Pango build by default

You can also try the MSYS install but I didn't put all of the Pango details in there

[zbjornson]

This was fixed in 2.x 🚀