[cairo] No native surface or font backends

Stephen Reese rsreese at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 10:56:44 PDT 2012


Are the always built-in surface and font backends not considered native?

cairo (version 1.12.0 [release]) will be compiled with:

The following surface backends:
  Image:         yes (always builtin)
  Recording:     yes (always builtin)
  Observer:      yes (always builtin)
  Mime:          yes (always builtin)
  Tee:           no (disabled, use --enable-tee to enable)
  XML:           no (disabled, use --enable-xml to enable)
  Skia:          no (disabled, use --enable-skia to enable)
  Xlib:          no (requires X development libraries)
  Xlib Xrender:  no (requires --enable-xlib)
  Qt:            no (disabled, use --enable-qt to enable)
  Quartz:        no (requires CoreGraphics framework)
  Quartz-image:  no (disabled, use --enable-quartz-image to enable)
  XCB:           no (requires xcb >= 1.6 xcb-render >= 1.6
http://xcb.freedesktop.org)
  Win32:         no (requires a Win32 platform)
  OS2:           no (disabled, use --enable-os2 to enable)
  CairoScript:   yes
  PostScript:    yes
  PDF:           yes
  SVG:           yes
  OpenGL:        no (disabled, use --enable-gl to enable)
  OpenGL ES 2.0: no (disabled, use --enable-glesv2 to enable)
  BeOS:          no (disabled, use --enable-beos to enable)
  DirectFB:      no (disabled, use --enable-directfb to enable)
  OpenVG:        no (disabled, use --enable-vg to enable)
  DRM:           no (disabled, use --enable-drm to enable)
  Cogl:          no (disabled, use --enable-cogl to enable)

The following font backends:
  User:          yes (always builtin)
  FreeType:      no (freetype-config not found in path or $FREETYPE_CONFIG)
  Fontconfig:    no (freetype-config not found in path or $FREETYPE_CONFIG)
  Win32:         no (requires a Win32 platform)
  Quartz:        no (requires CoreGraphics framework)

The following functions:
  PNG functions:   yes
  GLX functions:   no (not required by any backend)
  WGL functions:   no (not required by any backend)
  EGL functions:   no (not required by any backend)
  X11-xcb functions: no (disabled, use --enable-xlib-xcb to enable)
  XCB-shm functions: no (requires --enable-xcb)

The following features and utilities:
  cairo-trace:                yes
  cairo-script-interpreter:   yes

And the following internal features:
  pthread:       yes
  gtk-doc:       no
  gcov support:  no
  symbol-lookup: no (requires bfd)
  test surfaces: no (disabled, use --enable-test-surfaces to enable)
  ps testing:    no (requires libspectre)
  pdf testing:   no (requires poppler-glib >= 0.17.4)
  svg testing:   no (requires librsvg-2.0 >= 2.15.0)


*** No native surface backends enabled for your platform. It is strongly
*** recommended that you enable the native surface backend feature for your
*** platform.

*** No native font backends enabled for your platform. It is strongly
*** recommended that you enable the native font backend feature for your
*** platform.


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