<div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I am using cairo on Windows (to create metafiles) and found only one gotcha so far (that relates to metafiles specifically). A stock DLL should be OK for most use.</div><div><br></div><div> @Maarten: you said you cross-compile cairo for Windows from a Linux machine. Do you also include windows.h from somewhere? (Right now I can cross-compile, but not with win32 support.)</div><div><br></div><div>Zoltan</div> <br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/10/1 Maarten Bosmans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mkbosmans@gmail.com">mkbosmans@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> 2010/10/1 Lucan1d Beetle <<a href="mailto:lucan1d@hotmail.com">lucan1d@hotmail.com</a>>:<br> <div class="im">> I am looking for a 2D graphics toolkit for a new large project and Cairo is<br> > looking promising but one of the requirements I have is that the software<br> > runs well on Windows 7 so I would appreciate answers to the following<br> > questions:<br> ><br> ><br> > Does Cairo run as well on Windows as it does on other platforms (i.e.<br> > Linux)?<br> <br> </div>Although its primary developers mainly run Cairo on Linux (more<br> specifically: on intel graphics) there are enough people interested in<br> running it on Windows to keep it in good shape.<br> But of course Cairo isn't part of the core infrastructure on Windows,<br> so you might run into a bug yourself if you use the latest version.<br> <div class="im"><br> > Can I build Cairo on Windows or do I have to wait for GTK or someone else to<br> > build the latest version and release the binaries?<br> <br> </div>Yes, it can be build on Windows, either using MSVC or through<br> GCC+mingw32. Personally I find the easiest option to be<br> cross-compiling on Linux using mingw.<br> <br> I myself have switched to downloading the packages from the OpenSuse<br> BuildService. The mingw project over there has a lot of nice packeges<br> being automatically build for Windows. See for example:<br> <a href="https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=mingw32-cairo&project=windows%3Amingw%3Awin32" target="_blank">https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=mingw32-cairo&project=windows%3Amingw%3Awin32</a><br> I only compile stuff like Cairo and Gtk myself in order to fix bugs.<br> For distribution with my Windows app, I only rely on the binaries from<br> the BuildService.<br> <div class="im"><br> > Can Cairo be built using Visual Studio 2010 or be built in such a way that<br> > the resulting library works well with code built using Visual Studio 2010?<br> <br> </div>Yep. Although I think there isn't a MSVC project to build it, but you<br> have to use a special makefile. But as I have no experience building<br> this way, better let some else answer this in more detail.<br> <div class="im"><br> > In which Windows contexts/containers/frames can Cairo run such as Win32, MFC<br> > or WPF?<br> <br> </div>As you can see in the docs:<br> <a href="http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Win32-Surfaces.html" target="_blank">http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Win32-Surfaces.html</a><br> Cairo needs a HDC in order to be able to draw to a window.<br> <div class="im"><br> > Are there any known issues, limitations or "gotchas" related to running<br> > Cairo on Windows?<br> <br> </div>The main thing I would say is that there aren't that much developers<br> using Cairo on Windows. That said, it works great on Windows and I<br> would really recommend you to use Cairo. If you submit patches for any<br> problems you might experience, that's even better!<br> <br> One other thing is the performance of the win32 backend. It is<br> certainly sufficient (at least for my app), but I find that using the<br> image surface for drawing and then blitting the contents to the win32<br> surface is much faster. It's a trivial change code-wise, so you can<br> try and profile both to see whether performance is acceptable for you.<br> <br> ><br> > Thanks,<br> ><br> > -Lucan1d-<br> <br> Maarten<br> <font color="#888888">--<br> cairo mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org">cairo@cairographics.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo" target="_blank">http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo</a><br> </font></blockquote></div><br>