Provide install instructions for cairo-rs dependency which requires provided cairo dll
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Description
Cairo is quite portable, and it is quite feasible to build on other systems. However, the [cairo-rs](https://crates.io/crates/cairo-rs) crate seems to expect a library to be provided, rather than building it from sources. On Windows, I've been using prebuilt binary releases from [cairo-windows](https://github.com/preshing/cairo-windows).
We should file an issue with cairo-rs to see if we can make this a bit more friendly.
Until then, we should provide install instructions so that people don't get tripped up on this.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the cairo-rs crate and the cairo-windows prebuilt releases linked in the issue, then identify where piet's installation documentation belongs. Done means documenting how to provide the required cairo library, including the Windows DLL setup, so users are not blocked by the dependency.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100