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177 :: Error trying to execute nim forum

[2013-07-03T19:09:52+02:00]

jrichards (orginal) [2013-07-03T19:09:52+02:00] view original

I am getting the following error when attempting to run nimforum.

% ./forum could not load: libcairo.so(1.2)

nimforum appears to have compiled cleanly.

Hint: operation successful (29622 lines compiled; 9.104 sec total; 42.435MB) [SuccessX]

Thanks, Jim

gradha (orginal) [2013-07-03T20:21:32+02:00] view original

The forum requires the libcairo library during runtime to generate the captchas. Could it be that you don't have this library installed? I've made a pull request with the information to the upstream git repo, see if that helps.

jrichards (orginal) [2013-07-03T20:48:31+02:00] view original

Thanks Gradha, simple fix. I couldn't understand why a graphics library would be needed for a web application.

leledumbo (orginal) [2013-07-04T10:42:34+02:00] view original

I couldn't understand why a graphics library would be needed for a web application.
Graphics library doesn't deal with how an image/picture/whatever is displayed, but rather how it's rendered and manipulated, it's not tied to any kind of applications.