OSError: no library called "cairo" was found

[fehernandez12]

Before you call this a duplicate of #589, #721, #957, #1147, etc., I have tried all tips in the documentation and in those issues, I have not another GFK installed, both my Python and GFK versions are 64bit, the GFK directory is at the top of PATH variable and I have tried with both its regular path and its regular path with a slash "\".

[malnajdi]

@fehernandez12 can you let us know:
os:
os version:
python version:
what is the output of WHERE libcairo-2.dll:

Thanks

[liZe]

@fehernandez12 Can you give us more information about your problem?

[Aisha-Barahim]

@fehernandez12 can you let us know:
os:
os version:
python version:
what is the output of WHERE libcairo-2.dll:

Thanks

Hi,
I am facing the same issue
os: windows 10
os version: 64 bit - x64-based-processer
Python version: Python 3.8.1 (tags/v3.8.1:1b293b6, Dec 18 2019, 23:11:46) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)]
what is the output of WHERE libcairo-2.dll: C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libcairo-2.dll
also I added C:\msys64\mingw64\bin to path and I am still getting this error:
OSError: no library called "cairo" was found
cannot load library 'C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libcairo-2.dll': error 0x7f
cannot load library 'libcairo.so': error 0x7e
cannot load library 'libcairo.2.dylib': error 0x7e
cannot load library 'libcairo-2.dll': error 0x7f

[Tontyna]

What is your command to run WeasyPrint? What shell? Or are you within an IDE? Calling WeasyPrint as part of another project?

[Aisha-Barahim]

solved using cmd instead of git bash

[liZe]

solved using cmd instead of git bash

OK, thanks!

[Tontyna]

Yepp, special settings & paths in every IDE/shell other than the default cmd. They all try to be helpful 😏

[wan-zf]

if faced such problem when using igraph, try to " pip install pycairo", instead of " pip install cairocffi".

[imranrazakhan]

import os
os.add_dll_directory(r"C:\Program Files\GTK3-Runtime Win64\bin")

You need to call add_dll_directory() before interacting with WeasyPrint.