Comment 22 for bug 179988

FYI, I recently had some difficulties with pycairo on win32. I built pycairo against our libs bundle (cairo 1.4 at the time iirc) as an easy out (all of the deps were collected there in one place for me). Things worked fine until I tried to use text. Every attempt to use text caused a crash. Recently I found an updated binary of cairo and pycairo 1.4 on the gtk site and with these versions I do not experience a crash. I would postulate from my experience that this crash if it is caused by text is not related to the version of cairo, but rather the build. I wonder if perhaps this is caused by some bad linking against or between the font librarys that cairo uses. (Those font libs always confuse me. seems like there are a number of cross deps that would be difficult to get right.)