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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 20 03:26:09 -0700 2006 ------- As you (should) know, there are no official Windows binaries for 3rd-party Open Source libraries like cairo. Perhaps what comes closest to being "official" is the cairo binary package distributed from ftp.gtk.org (which, surprise, is built and distributed by me). That provides a DLL, libcairo-2.dll. However, that build of cairo includes the svg, pdf, ps, and png surface backends, not just the win32 surface backend that cairocanvas needs. Especially the png surface backend is troublesome, as it then pulls in a dependency on libpng and zlib, for which again the situation is the same, there are no official Windows binaries. Just building cairo as part of OOo as static libraries, not as a DLL, is much simpler. I would say the cairo situation is very analoguous to the jpeg library: OOo doesn't on Windows use an external jpeg library either, although there presumably exist several ready-built binary distributions of the jpeg library as a DLL to choose from ;) (But again, as far as I know, none that could be called "official".) Instead, the jpeg library is built as part of OOo as a static library. BTW, for zlib there actually *is* an officially blessed Win32 DLL, distributed from zlib.org. Still OOo doesn't use that as an external dependency, but builds its own static zlib library. To add insult to injury, this is the outdated zlib 1.1.4, while the current version is 1.2.3. Why? Should I open an issue for that? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
