<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Hi Chris,   Thanks for the useful info.   No, Windows 7 is not the only target OS but it is the only target flavour of Windows that I will be supporting.  I also need Linux and Mac support.  I've had a look at Direct2D but besides not being cross-platform it doesn't seem to have all the functionality of Cairo anyway.   If/when I figure out the Visual Studio 2010 build processI will definitely share the details and the project file with everyone.   Cheers,   -Lucan1d-  <HR id=stopSpelling> From: Chris.Thorgrimsson@lamresearch.com To: lucan1d@hotmail.com; cairo@cairographics.org Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:40:02 -0700 Subject: RE: [cairo] Questions about Cairo and Windows <META name=Generator content="Microsoft SafeHTML"> <STYLE> .ExternalClass p.ecxMsoNormal, .ExternalClass li.ecxMsoNormal, .ExternalClass div.ecxMsoNormal {margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';} .ExternalClass a:link, .ExternalClass span.ecxMsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} .ExternalClass a:visited, .ExternalClass span.ecxMsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;} .ExternalClass p {margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';} .ExternalClass span.ecxEmailStyle18 {font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D;} .ExternalClass .ecxMsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in;} .ExternalClass div.ecxWordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} .ExternalClass ol {margin-bottom:0in;} .ExternalClass ul {margin-bottom:0in;} </STYLE> <DIV class=ecxWordSection1> 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.   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/" target=_blank>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!   Curious…is Windows7 the only target OS? If so, why not Direct2D (dare I mention that name on this forum….).   -Chris       <DIV> <DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"> 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</DIV></DIV>   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:   <OL type=1> <LI class=ecxMsoNormal>Does Cairo run as well on Windows as it does on other platforms (i.e. Linux)?</LI> <LI class=ecxMsoNormal>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?</LI> <LI class=ecxMsoNormal>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?</LI> <LI class=ecxMsoNormal>In which Windows contexts/containers/frames can Cairo run such as Win32, MFC or WPF?</LI> <LI class=ecxMsoNormal>Are there any known issues, limitations or "gotchas" related to running Cairo on Windows?</LI></OL>   Thanks,   -Lucan1d-</DIV> </body> </html>