<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=WordSection1> I’ve been using cairo and Pango on Windows XP (via a set of VisualWorks Smalltalk bindings) for over a year and have been very happy with it. I work for a company that makes semiconductor processing equipment and we use cairo to drive an animation overview for one of the machines. It’s been in production for over a year without issue. Granted, we use a fraction of what cairo is capable of doing, but what we do use works very well. So far, every performance issue I have run into, has been on my side, not cairo.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> When it came to building the DLLs, I started to try and do it all in VS2008, but ended up going the route of GCC+mingw32. I think an end-to-end build within VS is possible, I just didn’t have the patience to figure it all out. That was all when cairo was at 1.8.8. We are still using 1.8.8. Shortly after I finished mucking around with the whole build process, Travis Griggs (the same guy who made the Smalltalk language bindings) published an easier end-to-end build guide on the cairo wiki for building on Windows and Mac. You may have already seen this, but just in case, check out. <a href="http://cairographics.org/building/">http://cairographics.org/building/</a> . Over the next several weeks, I will be attempting to rebuild for 1.8.10, but will probably end up using the method that Travis published. If you do end up choosing to do it all in VS2010, I would be overjoyed to know how you did it!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Curious…is Windows7 the only target OS? If so, why not Direct2D (dare I mention that name on this forum….).<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> -Chris<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p>  <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'> From: cairo-bounces+chris.thorgrimsson=lamrc.com@cairographics.org [mailto:cairo-bounces+chris.thorgrimsson=lamrc.com@cairographics.org] On Behalf Of Lucan1d Beetle Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 3:47 AM To: cairo@cairographics.org Subject: [cairo] Questions about Cairo and Windows<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> I am looking for a 2D graphics toolkit for a new large project and Cairo is looking promising but one of the requirements I have is that the software runs well on Windows 7 so I would appreciate answers to the following questions:  <o:p></o:p> <ol start=1 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Does Cairo run as well on Windows as it does on other platforms (i.e. Linux)?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Can I build Cairo on Windows or do I have to wait for GTK or someone else to build the latest version and release the binaries?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Can Cairo be built using Visual Studio 2010 or be built in such a way that the resulting library works well with code built using Visual Studio 2010?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>In which Windows contexts/containers/frames can Cairo run such as Win32, MFC or WPF?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Are there any known issues, limitations or "gotchas" related to running Cairo on Windows?<o:p></o:p></li> </ol>   Thanks,   -Lucan1d-<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>