On Sunday, 14 September 2014 at 14:37:05 UTC, Robert burner
Schadek wrote:
use gtkd they have a cairo binding
Well, umm.. the fact is that I want to make my own lightweight
cross-platform widget toolkit from scratch and a gtkd dependency
is a big no-no.
On Sunday, 14 September 2014 at 14:45:49 UTC, evilrat wrote:
try adding CAIRO_HAS_XLIB_SURFACE version identifier in your
dub project, may help with this problem(i mean cairoD from dub
don't have configuration system so possibly you need to specify
everything manually, hopefully you won't mess with source, just
try different versions)
Variables like CAIRO_HAS_XLIB_SURFACE are platform specific, xlib
and xcb surfaces are for linux, win32 and directfb surfaces are
for windows and so on.. I will search in dubs documentation how
can I specify this sort of variables but I have a gut feeling
that running a pre-build script(rdmd ?) is the way of setting
them such that they will work for everybody.
never heard deimos deprecated, dub and deimos has different
purpose, dub is dependency tracking and build tool, deimos is
just an "extension" to phobos containing only C-bindings(!).
I probably epressed myself in the wrong way but the ussage of dub
is encouraged and I've seen many deimos libraries being moved to
dubs registry(ctrl+F for "deimos" in http://code.dlang.org/ ),
one of them being libX11.The package maintainer of libX11 said in
the project description and I quote:
"This repository is a clone of the Deimos X11 repository. I've
purposely not forked because the overall structure has been
changed to suit the dub build tool. Hopefully this is a temporary
measure until the entirety of Deimos is moved to dub."
I don't see the point of maintaining two versions of the same
library, especially for a small comunity like D users.
either use deimos only(both x11 and cairo), or possibly you
will need to update(?) dub cairoD to use deimos x11. the
problem with this is that cairoD looks abandoned, it will
possibly require to maintain your own fork of it if start using
it.
If you look at deimos.cairo you will see that the latest commit
was made 2 years ago while cairoD was last updated 6 months ago.
I made my choice: I will stick to dub, fork cairoD, merge
everything from deimos.cairo into cairoDs C-style bindings &
wrappers, update cairoDs dependencies to use dub pkgs and then
provide and rdmd script to configure platform specific stuff. I
have plenty of time and if I succed, everyone can benefit from my
work. :)
