On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 18:34 +0200, Dobos D. Calin wrote: > Small (and mostly useless :) ) test. rjek was right, a Windows port based > on Cairo would bring in quite a lot of depdendencies. Not that much in > size, actually, but a lot compared to a GDI based port. > > http://students.info.uaic.ro/~calin.dobos/test/
Looks interesting. Can you add some drawing primitives to your test, such as line and box drawing? Also, you say that the GDI has anti-aliasing - I wasn't aware of that. Is that a recent addition that making use of would restrict portability to older editions of Windows? I'd like to see us running on Windows 98, but if that's a hideous chore, 2000 would do. Also, for purely selfish reasons, I'd like any Windows port to be cross-compilable from Linux so we can auto-build it. If you're currently using MinGW, are you able to check if your work can be built using MinGW under Linux? (Debian and Ubuntu ship MinGW cross-compiling tool chains - I don't know about other distributions.) B.
