Here is some feedback I got from the different vector library authors.
McSeem (Antigrain author) will help bind the C code when the interface is
clearly defined.
Binding Cairo
Straight binding since its written in C - Glitz development is slow and
apparently incomplete?
Binding Xara
Renderer not released yet.
Binding Antigrain
Hello,
We are looking at vector libraries for the Neko VM
(http://www.nekovm.org)
However it is written in C, we are looking at Amanith, Cairo, Antigrain
and Xara.
Well, as you could expect I will try to promote AGG here.
First, some words about the advantages of AGG compared with Amanith.
AGG is totally platform independent, including independency on any target
hardware. In particular it means that the quality is guraranteed on any
platform and any video card. You can even generate a PNG on the server
side and you won't depend on video hardware.
Amanith, as well as Cairo with Glitz backend heavily depend on OpenGL.
Xara engine is good, but huge and heavy.
AGG is pure software rendering library, with no HW acceleration. It means
that you can't use it for heavy duty realtime graphics. But still, in
practice the performance is good enough for, say, casual games.
Could you help us with this? Or know a way to make this easy? or any
other suggestion?
You can surely use AGG from pure C, for example, Carl Sassenrath with his
REBOL language does namely that.
The first thing to do is clearly define the interface. Then, I can help
you with writting a wrapper over AGG with pure C functions.
The interface can be something like OpenVG, for example, or, Java2D,
simplified and modified for pure C specific.
McSeem
Binding Amanith
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:44:08 +0800, Michele Fabbri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
To bind Amanith to Neko, would be possible in this way:
- compile amanith as a stand alone shared library (.dll,.so)
- write a C wrapper of the GOpenglBoard class
- link the wrapper to NekoVM
Since NekoVM is Lgpl and Amanith is Qpl, please keep Amanith completely
separated (as 'plugin') and add a disclaimer to specify that the
included Amanith version is not under the Lgpl.
We are working (pretty finished) to an implementation of the OpenVG API
over OpenGL, written in ansi C; unfortunately this is a closed source
project, it will be a commercial library.
Best regards,
Michele Fabbri
www.mazatech.com
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