Python: OSError: cannot load library libcairo.so.2
I just had the same issue ("OSError: cannot load library libcairo.so.2: error 0x7e"), and this is how I solved the problem on Windows (Windows 7 x64, Python 3.4.2 x86 (MSC v.1600 32 bit)):
- downloaded an all-in-one bundle of the GTK+ stack including 3rd-party dependencies (which contains
libcairo-2.dll
and other Cairo-related libraries) - extracted this archive to a path which does NOT contain spaces (e.g.
C:\Programs\gtk+
) - added the extracted directory's
bin
subdirectory (which contains the mentionedlibcairo-2.dll
and other necessary files) to the PATH- Win+R,
SystemPropertiesAdvanced
- Environment Variables...
- added this directory to the Path variable (either to the user variables or system variables, after a semicolon) (e.g.
...;C:\foo;C:\Programs\gtk+
) - OK
- Win+R,
pip install cairosvg
- tested it with a very simple code, which already had worked:
import cairosvg
testsvg = '<svg height="30" width="30">\
<text y="10">123</text>\
</svg>'
svgConvertedToPng = cairosvg.svg2png(bytestring=testsvg)
print(svgConvertedToPng)
On Mac OS X using homebrew:
brew install cairo
brew install pango
It seems cairo depends a shared library which is not in standard search library, however, the python is calling dlopen to dynamic load the library, so you could try to put the libcairo.so.2(if it's a link, then make sure the reference locates at the same folder) in the working directory. You can also try pkg-config to set the environment. see here http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html