#How to install pycairo windows how to
#How to install pycairo windows for mac
#How to install pycairo windows software

Why isn't darwin more like linux? I found this instruction very helpful and much less confusing.

#How to install pycairo windows software

Dismiss Join GitHub today GitHub is home to over 31 million developers working together to host and review code, manage projects, and build software together. If your have the same problem with me, do brew install pkg-config and, problem solved. Hello all, I wanted to install pycairo but I couldn't manage to, is there anyone who knows what this error message is about? Notice that 'pkg-config' not found. I've added some code in pygobject to produce a more helpful error message: On mac it gets tricky as there can be homebrew or macports I've got a really ancient script in shoebot that you can probably grab the names of the cairo packages from - https: Hi, I do have another error here: I guess what I'm saying is it appears the pycairo install issue on Mac is not necessarily dependent on environmental issues. The docs could probably be improved, by including an install section for different operating systems. On Windows things are different, so we bring our our own version. This will be the case - on Linux and OSX pycairo gives you bindings to the installed version of the cairo library. It threw a Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path. While installing pycairo as a dependency, I needed to run sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev before I could get pip install pycairo to run. Yeah - that's what I thought! On mac, ensure the cairo package is installed brew install cairo before attempting to install via pip. The build script is at https: Thanks stuaxo. See In case there's any interest, I found that it is relatively easy to build a manylinux wheel for pycairo. The next pycairo release should have a better error message than what you got. You can check that everything works by using pkg-config -modversion cairo, which should print out the cairo version. If you use macports I think installing the package pkgconfig should help.

#How to install pycairo windows for mac

I'm not clear what the issue and solution would be for Mac users. I did see the similarity in the error message, but it sounded from your response that the problem was that it was Windows issue.

#How to install pycairo windows how to

py2cairo mac - How to install pycairo on osx?ДЄnd I've tried already installed Cairo via both fink which has only Cairo 1.

This should work now: I've filed a request: New bugfix release is out: I'm using Mac Sierra. We could also use the 'cairo' name, but I fear that will lead to confusion and I'd like to avoid it. Either I was too annoying or they are busy with other things. I've brought claiming the pycairo package up multiple times on pypa, but didn't get a response. To make this work everywhere we will need to be able to build binary wheels for most of the wanted architectures, then upload these to pip. Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account.