diff -Nru orig/Cairo/configure.win patched/Cairo/configure.win
--- orig/Cairo/configure.win	2020-04-11 01:57:33.000000000 +0200
+++ patched/Cairo/configure.win	2020-07-02 18:06:52.709035800 +0200
@@ -1,49 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-echo "  checking cairo headers and libraries"
-allok=yes
-
-if [ ! -e src/win64/libcairo.a ]; then
-    if [ ! -e src/cairo-current-win.tar.gz ]; then
-	echo "  cannot find current cairograhics files"
-	echo "  attempting to download them"
-	echo 'download.file("http://www.rforge.net/Cairo/files/cairo-current-win.tar.gz","src/cairo-current-win.tar.gz",mode="wb")'|${R_HOME}/bin/R --vanilla --slave
-    fi
-    if [ ! -e src/cairo-current-win.tar.gz ]; then
-	allok=no
-    else
-	echo "  unpacking current cairo"
-	tar fxz src/cairo-current-win.tar.gz
-	if [ ! -e src/win64/libcairo.a ]; then
-	    allok=no
-	fi
-    fi
-fi
-
-if [ ! -e src/win64/libcairo.a ]; then
-    allok=no
-fi
-
-if [ ! -e src/win64/cconfig.h ]; then
-    echo '/* no extra features */' > src/win64/cconfig.h
-fi
-if [ ! -e src/win32/cconfig.h ]; then
-    echo '/* no extra features */' > src/win32/cconfig.h
-fi
-
-if [ ${allok} != yes ]; then
-    echo ""
-    echo " *** ERROR: unable to find cairographics files"
-    echo ""
-    echo " They must be either in src/win32 and src/win64 or in a tar-ball"
-    echo " src/cairo-current-win.tar.gz"
-    echo ""
-    echo " You can get the latest binary ball from"
-    echo " http://www.rforge.net/Cairo/files/"
-    echo ""
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-echo "  seems ok, ready to go"
-
-exit 0
+echo '/* no extra features */' > src/cconfig.h
diff -Nru orig/Cairo/src/Makevars.win patched/Cairo/src/Makevars.win
--- orig/Cairo/src/Makevars.win	2020-04-11 01:57:33.000000000 +0200
+++ patched/Cairo/src/Makevars.win	2020-07-02 18:06:52.646527300 +0200
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@
 BITS=32
 endif
 
-PKG_CPPFLAGS=-I. -Iwin$(BITS) $(XTRA_PKG_CPPFLAGS)
-PKG_LIBS=win$(BITS)/libcairo.a win$(BITS)/libpixman-1.a win$(BITS)/libpng.a win$(BITS)/libz.a -lgdi32 -lmsimg32 $(GRAPHAPP_LIB)
+PKG_CPPFLAGS=-I. -I$(LOCAL_SOFT)/include/cairo -I$(LOCAL_SOFT)/include/freetype2 $(XTRA_PKG_CPPFLAGS)
+PKG_LIBS=-lcairo -lfontconfig -lintl -liconv -lexpat -lfreetype -lharfbuzz -lpixman-1 -lpng -lbz2 -lz -lgdi32 -lmsimg32 $(GRAPHAPP_LIB)