hello just fyi, the enlightenment project has a SVG parser and we use freetype for the rendering
regards Vincent Torri On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 6:34 PM Moazin Khatri <moazinkha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Werner, > > As I start researching about SVG rendering libraries, one thing I'll be > concerned with will be the dependency tree and the size of those libraries. > > Thinking about the sizes, brought me to the question of how will we be > linking the default SVG Rendering library. For the sake of this question, > let's ASSUME we choose to use `svgnative' with its `cairo' backend. Which of > the following would be our case: > > 1. We specify `svgnative' and `cairo' as a dependency, just like 'libpng' is > defined currently (provided it is configured to be `yes' in ./configure > step). `libpng' is NOT directly a part of `libfreetype.a', rather it's > supposed to be already installed in the system and is dynamically linked > within `libfreetype.so'. The same goes for `harfbuzz' and `graphite2'. Am I > correct? Is this exactly what we will be doing with the `svgnative' and > `cairo'? > > 2. We make `svgnative' a part of our codebase. Take the responsibility of > compiling it within our build system. At the same time, we specify `cairo' as > an external dependency and dynamically link it within `libfreetype.so'. > > 3. We make everything a part of our codebase. Including `svgnative' and > `cairo' and all of their major dependencies. Sounds like a really horrible > idea given the size of these things. But I wanted to make sure I list > everything that I have in my mind. > > Which one is it going to be? Some variation of any one of these? None of > these? > > My understanding about linking had been really weak. I have learned a lot > more about it with my recent experiences with compiling `svgnative' with its > `skia' port (which I have now successfully done). So, if I have got any major > concept wrong or if I am unaware of common practices, I apologize, please > point it out and I'll read about it. > > Regards, > Moazin > > > _______________________________________________ > Freetype-devel mailing list > Freetype-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
