<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp9aa71263yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">[Apologies for missing the end of my mail out]</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The end goal would be to separately package the backends - so if you just want an image or pdf backend, you wouldn't need to have xlib installed just to install cairo.<br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp9aa71263signature">S++</div></div>
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On Friday, December 6, 2019, 5:02:13 PM GMT, Stuart Axon <stuaxo2@yahoo.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv0855228874"><div><div class="yiv0855228874ydpb56edbefyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I was wondering how hard it would be to split up cairo by backend, would it be feasible to build it so there instead of libcairo.so, there is libcairo-${backend}.so, e.g.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">libcairo-image.so<br></div><div dir="ltr">libcairo-xcb.so</div><div dir="ltr">libcairo-pdf.so</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">etc..?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Any idea what I would need to change to make it build like this ?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">(Also, any problems that could arise).<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">If it could be split up, these could be packaged separately, so if you just want the image backend, you wouldn't need.</div></div></div></div></div>
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