[Rd] Clash between 'Cairo' and 'EBImage' packages on Windows
Uwe Ligges
ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Wed Jul 23 17:47:51 CEST 2008
Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
> On Jul 23, 2008, at 6:21 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> I updated one of by Windows' boxes to GTK 2.12.9, and replaced the
>> libcairo-2.dll in the Cairo binary distribution by that from GTK 2.12.9.
>> At that point Cairo and EBImage worked together, in either order.
>>
>> I think Uwe may need to trigger a rebuild of his Cairo binary to pick
>> up Simon's updated libcairo-2.dll -- the existing binary is not
>> compatible with GTK 2.12.9.
>>
>
> I have released a new version of Cario on Monday just to trigger this,
> so once CRAN is updated it should happen automatically.
Sorry, I'm currently a bit short of time:
- Should I install GTK 2.12.9 or does it work with older versions?
- So do I understand alright that I do not need to trigger anything yet?
Best,
Uwe
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
>
>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brian,
>>>> thanks for the analysis.
>>>> On Jul 21, 2008, at 6:29 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Sklyar, Oleg (London) wrote:
>>>>>> EBImage is dynamically linked against GTK, which includes cairo
>>>>>> libraries, so those are installed along with GTK. Cairo seems to be
>>>>>> statically linking to libcairo.dll.a. I would assume that if it is
>>>>> That is an import library, so it is actually linked to
>>>>> libcairo-2.dll, which it ships.
>>>>>> linked statically it should not get confused with a shared library
>>>>>> present elsewhere in the path, but it looks like it does. I have no
>>>>>> solution for that because unlike Cairo I cannot not statically link
>>>>>> EBImage to GTK as it is not one library that I need, but a bunch of
>>>>>> those.
>>>>>> On Linux you won't get this problem as it uses the same centrally
>>>>>> installed Cairo library.
>>>>>> In a way it would be better, if Cairo relied on the gladewin32.sf.net
>>>>>> which normally provides GTK (and thus cairo libraries) for Windows
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> linked dynamically, but probably to simplify user installations the
>>>>>> developers wanted to avoid this.
>>>>> It _is_ using dynamic loading, or there would be no conflict. From
>>>>> the names, it looks very like that it is using a DLL from gladewin32.
>>>>> The real issue looks rather like a versioning problem, that the
>>>>> cairo libraries installed as part of GTK and used by EBImage are
>>>>> way too old (cairo_pdf_surface_create was added at cairo 1.2, and
>>>>> cairo is at 1.6.4). So updating to the current GTK distribution may
>>>>> be all that is needed (and Henrik could also try replacing your
>>>>> GTK's libcairo-2.dll by that distributed with Cairo).
>>>> For compatibility sake I have updated the libcairo binary to 1.6.4
>>>> (based on GTK+ build), so if EBImage gets updated all should be well.
>>>
>>> EBImage relies on a user installation of GTK (AFAICS). Last night I
>>> updated my GTK to 2.12.9 and used that's libcairo-2.dll in Cairo. It
>>> all seemed to work.
>>>
>>>>>> There is not much I can do now about this, but I will follow the
>>>>>> thread
>>>>>> if anybody comes up with an idea to change the code if possible
>>>>> The Cairo package (which ships DLLs) could rename them, as R itself
>>>>> does where it builds its own versions. Or it could link statically
>>>>> (if that works, which it does not for e.g. package XML).
>>>> I'd rather not maintain my own build of libcairo for Windows since I
>>>> don't use it. I may consider renaming the DLL, but given that I'm
>>>> not building it from sources I'm not sure whether there is a trivial
>>>> way to do that.
>>>
>>> If you are not building it yourself, then the only way is to use an
>>> editor on the DLL to change the embedded name. I wouldn't suggest
>>> you do that (I had thought you were building it yourself).
>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Simon
>>>>> I don't really understand why this was posted to R-devel: it is not
>>>>> an R issue.
>>>>>> Dr Oleg Sklyar
>>>>>> Technology Group
>>>>>> Man Investments Ltd
>>>>>> +44 (0)20 7144 3803
>>>>>> osklyar at maninvestments.com
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org
>>>>>>> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Henrik Bengtsson
>>>>>>> Sent: 19 July 2008 19:26
>>>>>>> To: R-devel
>>>>>>> Subject: [Rd] Clash between 'Cairo' and 'EBImage' packages on
>>>>>>> Windows
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> on Windows XP Pro with R version 2.7.1 Patched (2008-06-27
>>>>>>> r46012) the 'Cairo' and the 'EBImage' packages does not play
>>>>>>> well together.
>>>>>>> Loading EBImage before Cairo cause the following to happen:
>>>>>>> # Rterm --vanilla
>>>>>>>> library(EBImage);
>>>>>>>> library(Cairo)
>>>>>>> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>>>>>>> unable to load shared library
>>>>>>> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.7.1pat/library/Cairo/libs/Cai
>>>>>>> ro.dll':
>>>>>>> LoadLibrary failure: The specified procedure could not be found.
>>>>>>> Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'Cairo'
>>>>>>> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Cairo'
>>>>>>> with a dialog titled 'Rterm.exe - Entry Point Not Found'
>>>>>>> saying 'The procedure entry point cairo_pdf_surface_create
>>>>>>> could not be located in the dynamic link library libcairo-2.dll'.
>>>>>>> Loading the packages in the reverse order works, but the
>>>>>>> Rterm seems unstable, e.g. calling q() immediately after will
>>>>>>> exit the R session without questions:
>>>>>>> # Rterm --vanilla
>>>>>>>> library(Cairo)
>>>>>>>> library(EBImage)
>>>>>>>> q()
>>>>>>> [Immediately back to the command line].
>>>>>>> I cannot reproduce the problem on R v2.7.1 on Ubuntu Hardy.
>>>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>>> R version 2.7.1 Patched (2008-06-27 r46012)
>>>>>>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>>>>>> locale:
>>>>>>> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>>>>>>> States.1252;LC_MON ETARY=English_United
>>>>>>> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>>>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>>>>>> other attached packages:
>>>>>>> [1] EBImage_2.4.0 Cairo_1.4-2
>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>> Henrik
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>>> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
>>
>>
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